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.
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.
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.
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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
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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