The New Negro

  • The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
    By Jeffrey C. Stewart

    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 ...

  • The New Negro: An Interpretation
    By Alain Locke

    The New Negro: An Interpretation

  • The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
    By Jeffrey C. Stewart

    In effect, the Party needed Locke's old theory—that Negro art was a form of catharsis for the soul wounded by ... But the personal advance for Locke was his ability to amend his aesthetic taste and accept protest in literature, ...

  • The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
    By Jeffrey C. Stewart

    After acknowledging that European artists had brought aesthetic recognition to West African art, Locke reframed the meaning of African art in the history of world culture. “To possess African art permanently and not merely as a passing ...

  • The New Negro: An Interpretation
    By Alain Locke

    Widely regarded as the key text of the Harlem Renaissance, this landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration includes contributions by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, ...

  • The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938
    By Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gene Andrew Jarrett

    More than fascinating historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way African American identity and history are still understood today.

  • The New Negro: An Interpretation
    By Alain LeRoy Locke

    " -Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925) The New Negro (1925) edited by Alain Locke is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays by artists who shaped the Harlem Renaissance such as W.E.B. du Bois, Walter Francis White, and Zora Neale Hurston ...

  • The New Negro: Paperback
    By Alain Locke

    The New Negro is the title of the Alain Locke's essay inside the anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature "The New Negro: An Interpretation".