Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke \'s influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America\'s most vexing problem.
Du Bois and a Charles Warren fellow at Harvard University; and a lecturer at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France..
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He has been a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Rome III; a W.
Rawley Prize, and the 2018 National Book Award in Nonfiction.
His biography The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke was the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize, the 2019 James A.
Stewart is a professor of black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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In 1925, he edited The New Negro: An Interpretation --an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African American art and literature.
Locke is best known as the creator of the philosophical concept New Negro which would initiate the Harlem Renaissance (1925-1939), a period of significant contributions of African American artists, writers, poets, and musicians.
After receiving a PhD in philosophy at Harvard in 1918, Locke returned to Howard and formed one of the first philosophy departments at a historically black college.
He graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1907 and became the first African American to be Selected as a Rhodes Scholar.
About author(s): Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was a philosopher, writer, and educator.
In committing to that path, Locke asserted, one would uncover a being-in-the-world that was rich and bountiful in its creative possibilities, if Black people could turn off the noise of racism and see themselves for who they really are: a world of creative people who have transformed, powerfully and perpetually, the culture of wherever history or social forces landed them.
To be a New Negro poet, novelist, actor, musician, dancer, or filmmaker was to commit oneself to an arc of self-discovery of what and who the Negro was--would be--without fear that one would disappoint the white or Black bystander.
The essays and articles collected in this volume, by Locke\'s Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, are the result of that new attitude and the struggle to instill the New Negro aesthetics, as Stewart calls it here, into the mind of the twentieth century.
He wanted to find new language and a new way for Black people to think of themselves.
He did not want to frame Harlem and Black writing as yet another protest against racism, nor did he want to focus on the sociological perspective on the Negro problem and Harlem as a site of crime, poverty, and dysfunction.
He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story writers who, in 1924, wrote about their experiences as Black people in America.
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke \'s influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination A Penguin Classic For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America\'s most vexing problem
