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More than fascinating historical documents, these essays remain essential to the way African American identity and history are still understood today.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