The New Negro, Jeffrey C. Stewart
The New Negro, Jeffrey C. Stewart
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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


Synopsis

In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. He narrates the education of Locke, including his becoming the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earning a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University, and his long career as a professor at Howard University. Locke also received a cosmopolitan, aesthetic education through his travels in continental Europe, where he came to appreciate the beauty of art and experienced a freedom unknown to him in the United States. And yet he became most closely associated with the flowering of black culture in Jazz Age America and his promotion of the literary and artistic work of African Americans as the quintessential creations of American modernism. In the process he looked to Africa to find the proud and beautiful roots of the race. Shifting the discussion of race from politics and economics to the arts, he helped establish the idea that black urban communities could be crucibles of creativity. Stewart explores both Locke's professional and private life, including his relationships with his mother, his friends, and his white patrons, as well as his lifelong search for love as a gay man.

About Jeffrey C. Stewart

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean

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

Goodreads review by Kasa

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

Goodreads review by Brian

(((( B R E A T H )))) This was an incredible long read for me but very worth it. Alain Locke is/was not well known, but he IS an important figure as he provided inspiration for more well known artists. Writeous.......more