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The New Negro Alain Locke by Winold Reiss. 1925. Private Collection. The New Negro THE LIFE OF A L A I N LO C K E J E F F R E Y C . S T E W A R T 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Jeffrey C. Stewart 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Stewart, Jeffrey C., 1950–author. Title: The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke / Jeffrey C. Stewart. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017026626 (print) | LCCN 2017026908 (ebook) | ISBN 9780199723317 (Updf) | ISBN 9780190652852 (Epub) | ISBN 9780195089578 (hardcover : acid-free paper) Subjects: LCSH: Locke, Alain, 1885–1954. | Locke, Alain, 1885–1954—Political and social views. | African American philosophers—Biography. | African American intellectuals—Biography. | African American college teachers—Biography. | Harlem Renaissance. | African American arts—History. | African Americans—Intellectual life. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. | HISTORY / Social History. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians. Classification: LCC E185.97.L79 (ebook) | LCC E185.97.L79 S83 2017 (print) | DDC 191—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026626 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Edwards Brothers Malloy, United States of America To John Wesley Blassingame (1940–2000) scholar, mentor, and friend, who set me on this course CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi PART I THE EDUCATION OF ALAIN LOCKE 1. A Death and a Birth 5 2. A Black Victorian Childhood 15 3. Child God and Black Aesthete 33 4. An Errand of Culture at Harvard College, 1904–1905 48 5. Locke’s Intellectual Awakening, 1905–1907 73 6. Going for the Rhodes 92 7. Oxford Contrasts 115 8. Black Cosmopolitan 135 9. Paying Second-Year Dues at Oxford, 1908–1909 161 10. Italy and America, 1909–1910 176 11. Berlin Stories 192 12. Exile’s Returns 209 13. Race Cosmopolitan Comes Home, 1911–1912 226 14. Radical Sociologist at Howard University, 1912–1916 243 15. Rapprochement and Silence: Harvard, 1916–1917 273 16. Fitting in Washington, D.C., 1917–1922 289 viii Contents PART II ENTER THE NEW NEGRO 17. Rebirth 311 18. Mother of a Movement, Mothered in Return, 1922–1923 332 19. Europe Before Egypt 354 20. Egypt Bound 379 21. Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1924 395 22. The Dinner and the Dean 408 23. Battling the Barnes 420 24. Looking for Love and Finding the New Negro 431 25. Harlem Issues 453 26. The New Negro and Howard 477 27. The New Negro and The Blacks 504 28. Beauty or Propaganda? 521 29. Black Curator and White Momma 545 30. Langston’s Indian Summer 567 31. The American Scholar 579 32. On Maternalism 599 PART III METAMORPHOSIS 33. The Naked and the Nude 629 34. The Saving Grace of Realism 657 35. Bronze Booklets, Gold Art 669 36. Warn a Brother 694 37. The Riot and the Ride 717 38. Transformation 740 39. Two Trains Running 755 40. The Queer Toussaint 771 41. The Invisible Locke 785 42. FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy 815 43. Wisdom de Profundis 837 Contents ix 44. The New Negro Lives 864 Epilogue 875 Notes 879 Select Bibliography 913 Index 915
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