In the anthology, The New Negro: An Interpretation by Alain Locke, the ‘new negro’ is characterized as breaking from the historical stereotypes place on African Americans and the promise of a new generation that has more opportunities and resources than their ancestors can ever image. Alain Locke writes, “The Old Negro….was a creature of moral debate and historical controversy” (3). Locke continues by dismissing the notion that African Americans are still represented by such narrow and limiting stereotypes as they were in the past. Furthermore, in the “Gift of the Tropics,” by W.A Domingo, Domingo talks about West Indians rebelling against the color line and the separation between the white upper class to the black lower class. These West Indians
