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A Penguin Classic
For 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 people in America. He did not want to frame Harlem and Black writing as yet another protest against racism, nor did he want to focus on the sociological perspective on the "Negro problem" and Harlem as a site of crime, poverty, and dysfunction. He wanted to find new language and a new way for Black people to think of themselves. The essays and articles collected in this volume, by Locke's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, are the result of that new attitude and the struggle to instill the New Negro aesthetics, as Stewart calls it here, into the mind of the twentieth century. To be a New Negro poet, novelist, actor, musician, dancer, or filmmaker was to commit oneself to an arc of self-discovery of what and who the Negro was-would be-without fear that one would disappoint the white or Black bystander. In committing to that path, Locke asserted, one would uncover a "being-in-the-world" that was rich and bountiful in its creative possibilities, if Black people could turn off the noise of racism and see themselves for who they really are: a world of creative people who have transformed, powerfully and perpetually, the culture of wherever history or social forces landed them.
A Penguin Classic
For 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 people in America. He did not want to frame Harlem and Black writing as yet another protest against racism, nor did he want to focus on the sociological perspective on the "Negro problem" and Harlem as a site of crime, poverty, and dysfunction. He wanted to find new language and a new way for Black people to think of themselves. The essays and articles collected in this volume, by Locke's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, are the result of that new attitude and the struggle to instill the New Negro aesthetics, as Stewart calls it here, into the mind of the twentieth century. To be a New Negro poet, novelist, actor, musician, dancer, or filmmaker was to commit oneself to an arc of self-discovery of what and who the Negro was-would be-without fear that one would disappoint the white or Black bystander. In committing to that path, Locke asserted, one would uncover a "being-in-the-world" that was rich and bountiful in its creative possibilities, if Black people could turn off the noise of racism and see themselves for who they really are: a world of creative people who have transformed, powerfully and perpetually, the culture of wherever history or social forces landed them.
Jeffrey C. Stewart is a professor of black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His biography The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke was the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize, the 2019 James A. Rawley Prize, and the 2018 National Book Award in Nonfiction. He has been a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Rome III; a W. E. B. Du Bois and a Charles Warren fellow at Harvard University; and a lecturer at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France.
BLACK LIVES MOVEMENT AND BLACK ARTISTS: Jeffrey Stewart offers a critically expansive idea of how Alain Locke shows readers how BLM manifests a distinctively African American creativity in the use of social media, street protest, journalism, but also dance, music, and visual art to make visible the invisible, the violence towards Black citizens, legible to a national and global community.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 480 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143135210 |
| ISBN-10: | 014313521X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Locke, Alain |
| Redaktion: |
Stewart, Jeffrey C
Gates, Henry Louis |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House Sea |
| Maße: | 193 x 127 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Alain Locke |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.01.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,249 kg |
Jeffrey C. Stewart is a professor of black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His biography The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke was the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize, the 2019 James A. Rawley Prize, and the 2018 National Book Award in Nonfiction. He has been a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Rome III; a W. E. B. Du Bois and a Charles Warren fellow at Harvard University; and a lecturer at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, France.
BLACK LIVES MOVEMENT AND BLACK ARTISTS: Jeffrey Stewart offers a critically expansive idea of how Alain Locke shows readers how BLM manifests a distinctively African American creativity in the use of social media, street protest, journalism, but also dance, music, and visual art to make visible the invisible, the violence towards Black citizens, legible to a national and global community.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Lyrik & Dramatik |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 480 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780143135210 |
| ISBN-10: | 014313521X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Locke, Alain |
| Redaktion: |
Stewart, Jeffrey C
Gates, Henry Louis |
| Hersteller: | Penguin Random House Sea |
| Maße: | 193 x 127 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Alain Locke |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.01.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,249 kg |
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