The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0190652853
• ISBN-13: 9780190652852
• Author: Jeffrey C. Stewart

In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. Locke also received a cosmopolitan, aesthetic education through his travels in continental Europe, where he came to appreciate the beauty of art and experienced a freedom unknown to him in the United States. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of Black culture in Jazz Age America and his promotion of the literary and artistic work of African Americans as the quintessential creations of American modernism. In the process he looked to Africa to find the proud and beautiful roots of the race. Shifting the discussion of race from politics and economics to the arts, he helped establish the idea that Black urban communities could be crucibles of creativity. Stewart explores both Locke’s professional and private life, including his relationships with his mother, his friends, and his white patrons, as well as his lifelong search for love as a gay man. Stewart’s thought-provoking biography recreates the worlds of this illustrious, enigmatic man who, in promoting the cultural heritage of Black people, became — in the process — a New Negro himself.

Table contents:

Part I: The Education of Alain Locke
1. A Death and a Birth
2. A Black Victorian Childhood
3. Child God and Black Aesthete
4. An Errand of Culture at Harvard College, 1904–1905
5. Locke’s Intellectual Awakening, 1905–1907
6. Going for the Rhodes
7. Oxford Contrasts
8. Black Cosmopolitan
9. Paying Second-Year Dues at Oxford, 1908–1909
10. Italy and America, 1909–1910
11. Berlin Stories
12. Exile’s Returns
13. Race Cosmopolitan Comes Home, 1911–1912
14. Radical Sociologist at Howard University, 1912–1916
15. Rapprochement and SilenceHarvard, 1916–1917
16. Fitting in Washington, D.C., 1917–1922
Part II: Enter the New Negro
17. Rebirth
18. Mother of a Movement, Mothered in Return, 1922–1923
19. Europe Before Egypt
20. Egypt Bound
21. Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1924
22. The Dinner and the Dean
23. Battling the Barnes
24. Looking for Love and Finding the New Negro
25. Harlem Issues
26. The New Negro and Howard
27. The New Negro and The Blacks
28. Beauty or Propaganda?
29. Black Curator and White Momma
30. Langston’s Indian Summer
31. The American Scholar
32. On Maternalism
Part III: Metamorphosis
33. The Naked and the Nude
34. The Saving Grace of Realism
35. Bronze Booklets, Gold Art
36. Warn a Brother
37. The Riot and the Ride
38. Transformation
39. Two Trains Running
40. The Queer Toussaint
41. The Invisible Locke
42. FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy
43. Wisdom de Profundis
44. The New Negro Lives

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