The New Negro

Summary

A definitive biography of Alain Locke, the Howard University philosopher and editor whose 1925 anthology "The New Negro" served as a manifesto for the Harlem Renaissance. Stewart traces Locke's life from his Philadelphia upbringing and Oxford studies through his complex roles as patron, theorist, and closeted gay man at the center of Black cultural life. The book restores Locke as a major American thinker who shaped the modern Black aesthetic.