What does Richard Wright's depiction of Bigger Thomas suggest about his conceptualization of black subjectivity in the urban North, and to what extent does it depart from the "the New Negro" in Alaine Locke's text? The Bigger Problem Alain Locke's essay "The New Negro" explains how the condition of black people during the Harlem Renaissance is evolving to a New Negro who is independent. Locke tells us that the Old Negro was a stereotype not …
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…find it. It was easier for Locke, being a rich black man, to create the ideal for what he saw the black race becoming but it would really take much longer than he had anticipated. The New Negro was born during the Harlem Renaissance but it could only really be seen without subjective eyes in more recent history. Bibliography Wright, Richard. Native Son. Ny And London Harper & Brothers Publishers 1940. Locke, Allain. "The New Negro." 1925.