The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings by Alain Locke

The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings by Alain LockePulitzer Prize winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA Penguin ClassicFor months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with the idea of the Negro as America's most vexing problem. He asked how shall Negroes think of themselves as he considered the new crop of poets, novelists, and short story writers who, in 1924, wrote about their experiences as Black

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