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The New Negro

The Life of Alain Locke

by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Bill Andrew Quinn
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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.

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    May 28, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9781977310125
      • File size: 1312522 KB
      • Duration: 45:34:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bill Quinn's sublime narration of this detailed biography of Alain Locke would meet with its subject's approval. The writer, educator, and philosopher was ahead of his time in extolling black intellect and was instrumental in the development of the Harlem Renaissance. At points, especially during descriptions of literary or philosophical styles, Quinn's voice can seem didactic--but these moments are few and come amid fascinating descriptions of Locke's relationship with his mother and examinations of race, queer identity, the black American class structure, and early-twentieth-century intellectualism. Quinn's unique voicing--neither overly persuasive nor detached--adds texture to the sometimes academic prose, raising interest while respecting the author's scholarship. Listeners who go beyond this work to Locke's writings will hear Quinn's vocal styling in Locke's words. M.P.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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