One of the extraordinary events of the twentieth-century has been the emergence of Black modernities across the oceanic divide. These modernities took on particular historical forms as well as singular cultural configurations. Invariably, in their formation, realization, and actualization's, whether in Africa or in the African Diaspora, they have constituted themselves as historical discourse, usually across the Atlantic, about cultural identities, historical survivals, invention of traditions, and the formulation of new nationalities. At the center of these reciprocal exchanges and interactions in the Black world has been the "New Negro" modernity, which orchestrated the deeper strains of the cultural splay of Black historical avant-gardes globally.