The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
Record details
- ISBN: 019508957X
- ISBN: 9780195089578
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Physical Description:
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xii, 932 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 879-914) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Section I. The Education of Alain Locke -- 1. A Death and a Birth -- 2. A Black Victorian Childhood -- 3. Child God and Black Aesthete -- 4. An Errand of Culture at Howard College, 1904-1905 -- 5. A Reluctant Prometheus : Locke's Intellectual Awakening at Harvard, 1905-1907 -- 6. Going for the Rhodes -- 7. Oxford Contrasts -- 8. Black Cosmopolitan -- 9. Paying Second Year Dues at Oxford, 1908-1909 -- 10. Italy and America, 1909-1910 -- 11. Berlin Stories -- 12. Exile's Return -- 13. Back in the U.S.S.R., 1911-1912 -- 14. Search for a Voice at Howard University, 1912-1916 -- 15. Rapprochement and Silence : Harvard, 1916-1917 -- 16. Fitting in Washington, DC, 1917-1922 -- Section II. Enter the New Negro -- 17. Rebirth -- 18. Queen Mother of the Movement, 1922-1923 -- 19. Opportunity Knocks -- 20. Egypt Bound -- 21. Renaissance and Self-Fashioning in 1924 -- 22. The Dinner and the Dean -- 23. Battling the Barnes -- 24. Looking for Love -- 25. Survey Says -- 26. Renaissance and Rejection -- 27. The New Negro and The Blacks -- 28. Beauty or Propaganda? -- 29. The Curator and the Patron -- 30. Langston's Indian Summer -- 31. The American Scholar -- 32. Loves' Labour Lost -- Section III. Metamorphosis -- 33. The Naked and the Nude -- 34. The Saving Grace of Realism -- 35. Bronze Booklets, Gold Art -- 36. Warn A Brother -- 37. The Riot and the Ride -- 38. Conversion -- 39. Two Trains Running -- 40. Queer Toussaint -- 41. The Invisible Locke -- 42. FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy -- 43. Inclusion and Death : Wisdom de Profundis -- 44. Buried but not Dead -- Epilogue. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction 2018 Pulitzer Winner, Biography 2019 |
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Jefferson County Library-Arnold | B LOCKE (Text)
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Pulitzer Winner, Biography -- 2019
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National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction -- 2018
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Jefferson County Library-Northwest | B LOCKE (Text)
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Pulitzer Winner, Biography -- 2019
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National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction -- 2018
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30051020223969 | Biography | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Windsor | BIO LOCKE (Text)
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Pulitzer Winner, Biography -- 2019
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National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction -- 2018
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30065010091467 | Biography | Available | - |