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Alain LeRoy Locke

Born

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

September 13, 1986

Died

June 09, 1954

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American educator and writer Alain LeRoy Locke, whose include Four Negro Poets (1927) and Negro Art: Past and Present (1936), championed the Harlem renaissance.

People best remember this philosopher as the chief interpreter. Harvard University in 1907 graduated Locke, a Phi Beta Kappa and the first black Rhodes scholar. He studied at Oxford and the University of Berlin and then received a Philosophiae Doctor in philosophy from Harvard in 1918. Aesthetics strongly concerned this humanist. His philosophy, cultural pluralism, emphasized the determining of values, most especially the respect for the uniqueness of each personality, to guide human conduct and interrelationships.

Locke taught at Howard University in District of Columbia for ...more

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Alain LeRoy Locke’s books

Average rating: 4.13 · 1,012 ratings · 48 reviews · 28 distinct works • Similar authors

	The New Negro by Alain LeRoy Locke (Editor), Richard Bruce Nugent (Contributor), Albert Coombs Barnes (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 916 ratings — published 1925 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond by Alain LeRoy Locke, Leonard Harris (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings by Alain LeRoy Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race (Moorland-Spingarn Series) by Alain LeRoy Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Negro and His Music-Negro Art: Past and Present 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When People Meet, a Study in Race and Culture Contacts 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kind of Tough Living Here: A Report on Bad Rural Housing in All 67 Alabama Counties really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Negro Art: Past and Present 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1969 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plays of Negro Life: A Source-Book of Native American Drama by Alain LeRoy Locke (Editor), Montgomery Gregory (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The most important element to be considered is the psychological complexion of the Negro as he inherited it from his primitive ancestors and which he maintains to this day. The outstanding characteristics are his tremendous emotional endowment, his luxuriant and free imagination and a truly great power of individual expression. He has in superlative measure that fire and light which, coming from within, bathes his whole world, colors his images and impels him to expression. The Negro is a poet by birth.”
― Alain LeRoy Locke, The New Negro

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