The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke / Jeffrey C. Stewart.
2018
191 L814s 2018
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Title
The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke / Jeffrey C. Stewart.
ISBN
9780190652852 (Epub)
9780195089578 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
019508957X (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9780199723317 (Updf)
9780190652852
0199723311
9780199723317
0190652853
9780195089578 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
019508957X (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9780199723317 (Updf)
9780190652852
0199723311
9780199723317
0190652853
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xii, 932 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
40027880981
40027879757
40027879757
Call Number
191 L814s 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)982092783
(OCoLC)982092783
(OCoLC)982092783
Summary
"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-914) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part I. The Education of Alain Locke. A Death and a Birth
A Black Victorian Childhood
Child God and Black Aesthete
An Errand of Culture at Harvard College, 1904-1905
Locke's Intellectual Awakening, 1905-1907
Going for the Rhodes
Oxford Contrasts
Black Cosmopolitan
Paying Second-Year Dues at Oxford, 1908-1909
Italy and America, 1909-1910
Berlin Stories
Exile's Returns
Race Cosmopolitan Comes Home, 1911-1912
Radical Sociologist at Howard University, 1912-1916
Rapprochement and Silence : Harvard, 1916-1917
Fitting in Washington, D.C., 1917-1922
Part II. Enter the New Negro. Rebirth
Mother of a Movement, Mothered in Return, 1922-1923
Europe Before Egypt
Egypt Bound
Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1924
The Dinner and the Dean
Battling the Barnes
Looking for Love and Finding the New Negro
Harlem Issues
The New Negro and Howard
The New Negro and The Blacks
Beauty or Propaganda?
Black Curator and White Momma
Langston's Indian Summer
The American Scholar
On Maternalism
Part III. Metamorphosis. The Naked and the Nude
The Saving Grace of Realism
Bronze Booklets, Gold Art
Warn A Brother
The Riot and the Ride
Transformation
Two Trains Running
The Queer Toussaint
The Invisible Locke
FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy
Wisdom de Profundis
The New Negro Lives
Epilogue.
A Black Victorian Childhood
Child God and Black Aesthete
An Errand of Culture at Harvard College, 1904-1905
Locke's Intellectual Awakening, 1905-1907
Going for the Rhodes
Oxford Contrasts
Black Cosmopolitan
Paying Second-Year Dues at Oxford, 1908-1909
Italy and America, 1909-1910
Berlin Stories
Exile's Returns
Race Cosmopolitan Comes Home, 1911-1912
Radical Sociologist at Howard University, 1912-1916
Rapprochement and Silence : Harvard, 1916-1917
Fitting in Washington, D.C., 1917-1922
Part II. Enter the New Negro. Rebirth
Mother of a Movement, Mothered in Return, 1922-1923
Europe Before Egypt
Egypt Bound
Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1924
The Dinner and the Dean
Battling the Barnes
Looking for Love and Finding the New Negro
Harlem Issues
The New Negro and Howard
The New Negro and The Blacks
Beauty or Propaganda?
Black Curator and White Momma
Langston's Indian Summer
The American Scholar
On Maternalism
Part III. Metamorphosis. The Naked and the Nude
The Saving Grace of Realism
Bronze Booklets, Gold Art
Warn A Brother
The Riot and the Ride
Transformation
Two Trains Running
The Queer Toussaint
The Invisible Locke
FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy
Wisdom de Profundis
The New Negro Lives
Epilogue.
Awards
National Book Award winner, 2018.
Pulitzer Prize winner for biography, 2019.
Pulitzer Prize winner for biography, 2019.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Stewart, Jeffrey C., 1950- New Negro. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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