

The New Negro
The Life of Alain Locke
Author: Jeffrey C. Stewart
Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn
Unabridged: 45 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/28/2019
Author: Jeffrey C. Stewart
Narrator: Bill Andrew Quinn
Unabridged: 45 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/28/2019
Jeffrey C. Stewart is a professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen and 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History.
This is a very long book. It won the 2018 National Book Award for Non-fiction. This is the biography of Alain Locke (1885-1954), the father of the Harlem Renaissance. He was the mentor to many black artists. The book is well written and meticulously researched. Stewart also interviewed many people th......more
This is a massive tome (over 900 pages), well researched and lovingly written. I had never heard of Alain Locke before, but his accomplishments were profound. Hailed as the architect of the Harlem Renaissance, he gained degrees in philosophy from Harvard and was the first African American Rhodes Sch......more