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Alain Locke: “Enter the New Negro”

( 1925 )

Further Reading

Articles

  • Holmes, Eugene C. “Alain Leroy Locke: A Sketch.”Phylon Quarterly 20, no. 1 (1959): 82–89.
  • ———. “Alain Locke and the New Negro Movement.”Negro American Literature Forum 2, no. 3 (1968): 60–68.

Books

  • Eze, Chielozona.The Dilemma of Ethnic Identity: Alain Locke’s Vision of Transcultural Societies. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
  • Grossman, James R.Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  • Harris, Leonard, and Charles Molesworth.Alain Locke: Biography of a Philosopher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  • Huggins, Nathan.Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
  • Lemann, Nicholas.The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Vintage, 1991.
  • Linnemann, Russell J., ed.Alain Locke: Reflections on a Modern Renaissance Man. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
  • Stewart, Jeffrey C. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Washington, Johnny.Alain Locke and Philosophy: A Quest for Cultural Pluralism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
  • ———.A Journey into the Philosophy of Alain Locke. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
  • Watson, Steven.The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920–1930. New York: Pantheon, 1995.
  • Wintz, Cary D.Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance. Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1988.
  • ———.Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2007.
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