New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Paperback by Stewart, Jeffrey C., Brand ...

Description: New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Paperback by Stewart, Jeffrey C., ISBN 0190056053, ISBN-13 9780190056056, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 prize-winning 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 Lockes
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.

Stewarts 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.

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Book Title: New Negro : the Life of Alain Locke

Number of Pages: 944 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Topic: United States / 19th Century, Social History, United States / General, African American

Item Height: 2 in

Publication Year: 2020

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: History

Item Weight: 45.6 Oz

Author: Jeffrey C. Stewart

Item Length: 9.2 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback