The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, who mentored a generation of artists including Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston and promoted the work of African Americans as the quintessential creators of American modernism. This biography explores his professional and private life, including his relationships with white patrons and his lifelong search for love as a gay man.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2018
- ISBN-13
- 9780195089578
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Harlem RenaissanceAfrican American intellectual historyLGBTQ history
Awards
- Mark Lynton History PrizeWon(2019)
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyWonMajor(2019)
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(2018)
- The Plutarch AwardShortlisted(2019)
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