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The New Negro - The Life of Alain Locke (Hardcover)
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The New Negro - The Life of Alain Locke (Hardcover)
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A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia
around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of
young artists like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob
Lawrence and call them the New Negro-the gender ambiguous,
transformative, artistic African Americans whose art would
subjectivize Black people and embolden greatness. Alain Locke
(1885-1954) believed Black Americans were sleeping giant that could
transform America into a truly humanistic and pluralistic society.
In the 1920s, these views were radical, but by announcing a New
Negro in art, literature, music, dance, theatre, Locke shifted the
discussion of race from the problem-centered discourses of politics
and economics to the new creative industries of American modernism.
Although this Europhile detested jazz, he used the Jazz Age
interest in Black aesthetics to plant the notion in American minds
that Black people were America's quintessential artists and Black
urban communities were crucibles of creativity where a different
life was possible in America. By promoting art, a Black dandy
subjectivized Black people and became in the process a New Negro
himself.
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