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020			_a9780195089578 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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020			_z9780190652852 (epub)
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100	1		_aStewart, Jeffrey C., _d1950-
245	1	4	_aThe new Negro : _bthe life of Alain Locke / _cJeffrey C. Stewart.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2018]
300			_axii, 932 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520	2		_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 913-914) and index.
505	0		_aSection 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.
600	1	0	_aLocke, Alain, _d1885-1954.
600	1	0	_aLocke, Alain, _d1885-1954 _xPolitical and social views.
650		0	_aAfrican American philosophers _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican American intellectuals _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican American college teachers _vBiography.
650		0	_aHarlem Renaissance.
650		0	_aAfrican American arts _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xIntellectual life.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Social History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians. _2bisacsh
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aStewart, Jeffrey C., 1950- author. _tNew Negro _dNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] _z9780199723317 _w(DLC) 2017026908
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