The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke 9780199723317, 9780190652852, 9780195089578, 1993240241, 019508957X, 0190652853, 0199723311

Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction. A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia

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The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke
9780199723317, 9780190652852, 9780195089578, 1993240241, 019508957X, 0190652853, 0199723311

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Table of 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.

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