The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- First published
- 2018
- Length
- ≈ 932 pages
- Reading time
- 24–32 hours
- ISBN
- 019508957X
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
The historian Jeffrey C. Stewart examines the life of Alain Locke, the African-American scholar and activist whom many regard as the ’father’ of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Philadelphia in 1885, Locke became the first African-American Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and went on to take a doctorate in philosophy at Harvard.
He knew from early in life that he was gay. He mentored many African-American writers and intellectuals, among them Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Claude McKay.
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