New Kids in the Neighhood is a painting by Norman Rockwelle. When the artist painted this work of art , America was experiencing the civil rights movement. Lot of families from different backgrounds , cultures and religion were beginning to live in the same neighborhoods , eat at the same restaurants and sit next to each other on buses.

New Kids in the Neighbourhood ( 1967 ), so entitled Negro in the Suburbs is a very famous painting. We can notice at once a symmetry of this picture : the opposition of the neighboors , the "confrontation". There is , on the right , the white children , they're dressed whith casual clothes :jeans, baseball white outfit, shorts, socks and sneakers and they have a black dog which opposes to the white cat . On the left , we can see the new arrivals ( neighboors) who are black , they are neatly dressed : white jumper, shorts, socks and sneakers. They are standing with their arms behind their backs, staring at the other children with curiosity.

They are many similarities , the black gril and the boy in the yellow pullover have the same posture , they're titled back while the others are titled forward. Hands behind the back for three of them , two boys have an equipment of baseball in Lands.Wa can see that the childrens are in a residential area ( thanks to the law , the house side by side and the parked can). It's really the American dream type in the 1960 ( apex of American model) : a beautiful house ,a beautilful car , and a beautiful life , it's a sign of success.

The date of this picture is very important because since 1964 there is a civil equality for the blacks and in 1965 a right to vote freely.We see that the painter advocates the equality between the whites and the blacks, quite as had made him Martin Luther King with his famous speech " I have has dream " but also as wanted Rosa Parks who refused to get up to leave his place to a white woman in the bus.

This picture between photography and painting is very