The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings - Paperback
by Alain Locke
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart (Editor), Jeffrey C. Stewart (Introduction by)Publish date:2022-01-18Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780143135210ISBN-10:014313521XUPC:9780143135210Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, American, DiscriminationBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDX8NSVDN
The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings
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. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780143135210ISBN-10:014313521XUPC:9780143135210Book Category:Literary Collections, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Essays, American, DiscriminationBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:7.60 x 5.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCDX8NSVDN
Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was a philosopher, writer, and educator. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1907 and became the first African American to be selected as a Rhodes Scholar. 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. Locke is best known as the...
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