The works of Alain Locke / edited by Charles Molesworth ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Author:: Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
Uniform Title:: Works. 2012
Published:: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:: xxxvii, 583 pages ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:: Molesworth, Charles, 1941-

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Collected Black writings series

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Literature -- Introduction -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- The Romantic Movement as Expressed by John Keats -- 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 / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Both Sides of the Color Line -- The Negro Minority in American Literature -- pt. 2 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 -- pt. 3 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 -- pt. 4 Race -- Introduction -- Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations -- Apropos of Africa -- The Concept of Race 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 -- pt. 5 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 -- pt. 6 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.

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ISBN:

9780199795048 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199795045 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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