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A 3 page paper which examines the notion of dreams and “train dancing” for the African Americans in relationship to the Great Migration and Harlem as seen in Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” and Alain Locke’s “The New Negro.” No additional sources cited.
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It is a time described in Toni Morrisons novel "Jazz" and Alain Lockes work "the New Negro." The following paper examines the dream of the Great Migration to Harlem, train
dancing, and how Morrisons two women face this new land of dreams and stark realities. Toni Morrison and Alain Locke: Dreams
In first understanding this incredible migration north, a trip that Morrison refers to as "train dancing," it is important to look at how, "In the northward movement of the Negroes
in the last ten years, we have another folk migration which in human significance can be compared only with this pushing back of the Western frontier in the first half
of the last century" (Locke 271). It was a promise of dreams that could come true for the African American, a future that was far brighter than that experienced anywhere
else. Lockes work indicates that, "In this new urban shift, the Negro is sharing, but so swiftly and with such a peculiar quickening as he pours for the first time
into this new terrain of American economic and community life, that for him it is more than a migration, it is a rebirth" (Locke 271). Fro the characters in
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. Joe became a salesman and Violet worked in a
beauty shop. In the beginning, when they first arrived, they were young and excited and eager and Morrison states, "When the train trembled approaching the water surrounding the City, they
thought it was like them: nervous at having gotten there at last" (Morrison 28). But, yet "Twenty years after Joe and Violet train-danced on into the City" these two rarely
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