Change and Duality

Abstract

Many changes have been created within black society as a result of urbanization process. change itself is one of objective qualities of black life has been manifested in black history as external pressures have been brought to bear on black people pressures which have kept African-American culture in a state of continuous transition. This process of change, of reconditioning a people to be something other than themselves, Haki R. Madhubuti (see Lee, 1970) points out, started centuries ago. For blacks used to be blackmen/ women; now they're negroes. That movement toward becoming an adjective, Madhubuti further points out, not accidental; but carefully planned and immaculately executed to rape a people of their culture. On whole, black man himself has undergone many diverse changes, changes brought by slavery; then there was theCivil War. There was Emancipation Proclamation, there was Reconstruction, there was Great Migration, and there was World War I. The black man emerged as New Negro in 1920s. The changes that new negro has undergone are summarized precisely by James A. Emanuel (1970). 1930's, he observes, the depression emaciated him. In