Week 9 – Writing Response: Alain Locke

Writing Response Reading:

Read: Enter New The Negro by Alaine Locke in the African American Literature Anthology digital course textbook, pages 149-156 

Please respond using your own original writing voice and from your personal informed perspective (first person point of view).

Step 1 Directions: Carefully read the above pages. After you have a firm understanding of the assigned reading, write a one-page response (200 words) to the writing prompt below:

Step 2: Based on your comprehension of Locke’s extended discussion of the New Negro, which of the assigned authors in this course–James Weldon Johnson, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, MLK, Malcolm X–best represents Locke’s definition of the New Negro and how so?