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Works of Alain Locke

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ISBN-10: 0199795045

ISBN-13: 9780199795048

Edition: 2012

Authors: Charles Molesworth, Henry Louis Gates, Henry Louis Gates

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This book features a comprehensive collection of essays by Alain Locke (1885-1954), the most formidable African American public intellectual of his generation. It is by far the largest collection of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that spanned forty years. The range of the work covers an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy, literary criticism, art and music criticism, value theory, race, politics, and multiculturalism. His inquisitive mind, his refined taste and his pragmatic temperament brought him renown as the "godfather" of the Harlem Renaissance. But his contributions to many fields extended well beyond that remarkable period, to the very beginning of the…    
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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.41" long x 1.89" tall
Weight: 2.068
Language: English

Charles Molesworthis coauthor of� Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopherand the editor of The Works of Alain Locke. He writes a regular art column for the quarterly, Salmagundi.

Foreword
Introduction
Editorial Note
Literature
Introduction
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Romantic Movement as Expressed
Emile Verhaeren
The Colonial Literature of France
The Younger Literary Movement: W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke
Color-A Review
The Weary Blues
Common Clay and Poetry
The Poetry of Negro Life
American Literary Tradition and the Negro
Fire: A Negro Magazine
The Message of the Negro Poets
Foreword to An Autumn Love Cycle
Both Sides of the Color Line
The Negro Minority in American Literature
Art, Drama, and Music
Introduction
Steps Toward the Negro Theatre
A Note on African Art
The Negro Spirituals
More of the Negro in Art
The Negro and the American Stage
The Drama of Negro Life
The Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection
The American Negro as Artist
Toward a Critique of Negro Music
Excerpt from The Negro and his Music (1936): From Jazz to Jazz Classics: 1926-1936
Negro Art: Past and Present
Negro Music Goes to Par
Broadway and the Negro Drama
Esthetics
Introduction
Impressions of Luxor
Internationalism-Friend or Foe of Art?
Negro Youth Speaks
The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts
African Art: Classic Style
The Negro in American Culture
Our Little Renaissance
Beauty Instead of Ashes
Art or Propaganda?
Beauty and the Provinces
Spiritual Truancy
Propaganda-or Poetry?
The Negro's Contribution to American Culture
Race
Introduction
Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations
Apropos of Africa
The Concept of Races as Applied to Social Culture
The Problem of Race Classification
Should the Negro be Encouraged to Cultural Equality?
The Contribution of Race to Culture
Slavery in the Modern Manner
Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane
Foreword: Frederick Douglass "Life and Times"
Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary
The Negro in the Three Americas
Special Section: When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Culture Contacts
Value and Culture
Introduction
Oxford: By a Negro Student
The American Temperament
The Ethics of Culture
The New Negro
Values and Imperatives
Value
A Functional View of Value Ultimates
Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension of Culture
Frontiers of Culture
Values that Matter
Freud and Scientific Morality
Democracy
Introduction
The Mandate System: A New Code of Empire
The Negro Vote in 1936
Ballad for Democracy
Color: Unfinished Business of Democracy
Democracy Faces a World Order
Cultural Relativism and Ideological Peace
Moral Imperatives for World Order
Color and Democracy
Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy
Pluralism and Ideological Peace
List of Persons Discussed in Locke's Essays
Index