The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Oxford University Press
Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally. Stewart's biography recreates the worlds of this enigmatic man who, in promoting the cultural heritage of Black people, became a New Negro himself: a creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness.