The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Author/Contributor(s):	Stewart, Jeffrey C
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	02/01/2018
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.