Format:
Book
Author:
Stewart, Jeffrey C., 1950- author.
Title:
The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke / Jeffrey C. Stewart.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:
xii, 932 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Philadelphia to mentor who he called the New Negro: a generation of young Black artists, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence, whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on primary sources and interviews with those who knew him personally. Locke became the first African American Rhodes Scholar, earned a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and had long career as a professor at Howard University. He 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. He became closely associated with 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, Locke 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.
Subjects:
Locke, Alain, 1885-1954.
Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 -- Political and social views.
African American philosophers -- Biography.
African American intellectuals -- Biography.
African American college teachers -- Biography.
African American gay men -- Biography.
Harlem Renaissance.
African American arts -- History.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-914) and index.
Contents:
Section 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 Howard College, 1904-1905 -- 5. A Reluctant Prometheus : Locke's Intellectual Awakening at Harvard, 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 Return -- 13. Back in the U.S.S.R., 1911-1912 -- 14. Search for a Voice at Howard University, 1912-1916 -- 15. Rapprochement and Silence : Harvard, 1916-1917 -- 16. Fitting in Washington, DC, 1917-1922 -- Section II. Enter the New Negro -- 17. Rebirth -- 18. Queen Mother of the Movement, 1922-1923 -- 19. Opportunity Knocks -- 20. Egypt Bound -- 21. Renaissance and Self-Fashioning in 1924 -- 22. The Dinner and the Dean -- 23. Battling the Barnes -- 24. Looking for Love -- 25. Survey Says -- 26. Renaissance and Rejection -- 27. The New Negro and The Blacks -- 28. Beauty or Propaganda? -- 29. The Curator and the Patron -- 30. Langston's Indian Summer -- 31. The American Scholar -- 32. Loves' Labour Lost -- Section 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. Conversion -- 39. Two Trains Running -- 40. Queer Toussaint -- 41. The Invisible Locke -- 42. FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy -- 43. Inclusion and Death : Wisdom de Profundis -- 44. Buried but not Dead -- Epilogue.
LCCN:
2017026626
ISBN:
9780195089578 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
019508957X (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
Other Number:
982092783
System Availability:
10
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3578798
Call Number:
191
Course Reserves:
0
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