Racism In Alain Locke's Nigger Heaven

Harlem nurtured the New Negro during the time that he began his evolution from the Old Negro. It is evident that many of the factors that make up the African American of today are the the result of the many experiences that took place in Harlem. In some cases there are also many interactions that do not happen as frequently as others. For example, in the novel Nigger Heaven, one of the main characters experiences and discusses one of the major issues that still took place in the 1920’s, racism. In some cases one can see a spike in current race relations as compared to a time period between the Harlem Renaissance and today. This includes both positive and negative changes. The negatives pertaining to the recent rise in police brutality, and the positives
Additionally, one can also see the shift in the effects of family interaction of the Negro from one time period to the next. During the time of the Harlem Renaissance, the large majority of the writers that found themselves overseas would often write about their yearning to return to Harlem (Bremer 49). The majority of the influential writers spent so much of their time in Paris that Alain Locke coined the term “Transplanted Harlem” for it. Therefore it must be evident that the change in both the social and written cultures, in regards to the change in family interaction, art, and literary styles between the two, of the New Negro in comparison to the African American of today is due to the effects of the Harlem Renaissance.
One of the major differences between the New Negro and the African American is the viewpoint on the culture. The aspects of the culture that is being focused on is the literary, and the fine arts. “In Harlem Renaissance literature,