The New Negro
The Life of Alain Locke. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2019
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The New Negro “
- 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
Autoren-Porträt von Jeffrey C. Stewart
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jeffrey C. Stewart
- 2018, 944 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019508957X
- ISBN-13: 9780195089578
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.11.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Stewart creates a compelling portrait of Locke ... as well providing rich contextual background and insights into the cultural and political debates out which his subject emerged. Douglas Field, Times Literary Supplement
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