Alain L. Locke : biography of a philosopher / Leonard Harris & Charles Molesworth
- Bib ID:
- 4550270
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Harris, Leonard, 1948-
- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008
- xiii, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780226317762
- 0226317765
- Summary:
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"The long-awaited first biography of the extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century America's cultural and intellectual life."
"Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth trace this story through Locke's Philadelphia upbringing, his undergraduate years at Harvard and his tenure as the first African American Rhodes Scholar. The heart of their narrative illuminates Locke's heady years in 1920s New York City and his forty-year career at Howard University, where he helped spearhead the adult education movement of the 1930s and wrote on topics ranging from the philosophy of value to the theory of democracy. Harris and Molesworth show that throughout this illustrious career - despite a formal manner that many observers interpreted as elitist or distant - Locke remained a warm and effective teacher and mentor, as well as a fierce champion of literature and art as means of breaking down barriers between communities."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Lockes of Philadelphia
- 2. Harvard
- 3. Oxford and Berlin
- 4. Howard: The Early Years
- 5. Howard and Beyond
- 6. The Renaissance and the New Negro
- 7. After The New Negro
- 8. New Horizons: Sahdji to the Bronze Booklets
- 9. The Educator at Work and at Large
- 10. Theorizing Democracy
- 11. The Final Years
- 12. Locke's Legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-417) and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Molesworth, Charles, 1941-
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2008
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