The New Negro

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a generation of artists including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Nurston and promoted the work of African Americans as the quintessential creators of American modernism. This biography explores his professional and private life, including his relationships with white patrons and his lifelong search for love as a gay man.

Zusatztext Jeffrey C. Stewart's comprehensive biography of Locke is a surprisingly gripping read... Locke's life story! beginning as a young black man who was born to a middle-class family in Philadelphia! and who was especially close with his mother! is compelling right from the beginning. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey C. Stewart is Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History and editor of Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen. Klappentext The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a generation of artists including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Nurston and promoted the work of African Americans as the quintessential creators of American modernism. This biography explores his professional and private life, including his relationships withwhite patrons and his lifelong search for love as a gay man.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography Zusammenfassung A tiny! fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of young artists like Langston Hughes! Zora Neale Hurston! and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro-the gender ambiguous! transformative! artistic African Americans whose art would subjectivize Black people and embolden greatness. Alain Locke (1885-1954) believed Black Americans were sleeping giant that could transform America into a truly humanistic and pluralistic society. In the 1920s! these views were radical! but by announcing a New Negro in art! literature! music! dance! theatre! Locke shifted the discussion of race from the problem-centered discourses of politics and economics to the new creative industries of American modernism. Although this Europhile detested jazz! he used the Jazz Age interest in Blackaesthetics to plant the notion in American minds that Black people were America's quintessential artists and Black urban communities were crucibles of creativity where a different life was possible in America. By promoting art! a Black dandy subjectivized Black people and became in the process a NewNegro himself. ...

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Autorentext
Jeffrey C. Stewart is Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History and editor of Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen.



Klappentext
The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a generation of artists including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Nurston and promoted the work of African Americans as the quintessential creators of American modernism. This biography explores his professional and private life, including his relationships withwhite patrons and his lifelong search for love as a gay man.

Zusammenfassung
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of young artists like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the gender ambiguous, transformative, artistic African Americans whose art would subjectivize Black people and embolden greatness. Alain Locke (1885-1954) believed Black Americans were sleeping giant that could transform America into a truly humanistic and pluralistic society. In the 1920s, these views were radical, but by announcing a New Negro in art, literature, music, dance, theatre, Locke shifted the discussion of race from the problem-centered discourses of politics and economics to the new creative industries of American modernism. Although this Europhile detested jazz, he used the Jazz Age interest in Black aesthetics to plant the notion in American minds that Black people were America's quintessential artists and Black urban communities were crucibles of creativity where a different life was possible in America. By promoting art, a Black dandy subjectivized Black people and became in the process a New Negro himself.

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Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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