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  • The New Negro

    by Alain Locke ...
    The New Negro is the title of the Alain Locke's essay inside the anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature "The New Negro: An Interpretation".Alain Leroy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Negro

    Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

    by Alain Locke ...
    A portrait of the vibrant world of 1920s Harlem, with writings by Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Walter White, and more.The Harlem Renaissance was a landmark period in African American history—a time when black poets, musicians, intellectuals, civil rights activists, and others changed the social and cultural landscape in enduring ways. Its influence went far ... Read more

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  • The New Negro

    by Alain Locke ...
    The New Negro is the idea of a transformed African American identity that rejects the stereotypes and oppressive limitations of the past. The "New Negro," as Locke describes it, is self-confident, proud, and intellectually empowered, seeking to assert a positive and autonomous identity in contrast to the subjugation and discrimination of earlier periods. Locke emphasizes the importance of cultural ... Read more

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  • The New Negro

    by Alain Locke ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'We have to-morrow Bright before us Like a flame' The New Negro: An Interpretation is a multidisciplinary anthology of poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, art, and philosophy woven together into a seamless statement of Black agency in the arts and humanities that became, upon its publication in 1925, an instant publishing success. Edited by Alain Locke, a man known as the father of the Harlem ... Read more

    $8.29 CAD

  • The New Negro

    by Alain Locke ...
    Originally published in 1925, ‘The New Negro’ is an anthology by Alain Locke. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke’s writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke’s work came to represent a break from an inhumane past, ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The New Negro

    by Alain Locke ...
    From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society.With stunning works by seminal black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W.E.B. DuBois, Locke has constructed a vivid look at the new ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The New Negro

    by Alain Locke, GP Editors ...
    Originally published in 1925, ‘The New Negro’ is an anthology by Alain Locke. Recognized as a foundational text of the Harlem Renaissance, the collection is organized around Locke’s writing on the function of art in reorganizing the conception of African American life and culture. Through self-understanding, creation, and independence, Locke’s work came to represent a break from an inhumane past, ... Read more

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    The New Negro Aesthetic

    Selected Writings

    by Alain Locke ...
    Narrated by Jerome Harmann-Hardeman ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 22 min

    **Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA 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 ... Read more

    $34.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The New Negro Aesthetic

    Selected Writings

    by Alain Locke, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The New Negro

    An Interpretation

    by Alain Locke ...
    Narrated by York Whitaker, Robin Eller, Charon Normand-Widmer, Ron Butler, J. D. Jackson, Sean Crisden, Cary Hite, Bill Andrew Quinn, Leon Nixon, Earl Sewell, Rhett Samuel Price, Lynch Travis, Dez Walker, Patryce Williams, Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    This anthology edited by the American writer, philosopher, and patron of the arts Alain Locke brings together some of the most influential pieces of African American works from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Featuring the voices of Zora Neale Thurston, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes, Locke included commentary on the emergence of the New Negro Movement, also known as the ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    New Negro, The

    An Interpretation

    by Alain Locke ...
    Narrated by David S. Dear ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 39 min

    "Of all the voluminous literature on the Negro, so much is mere external view and commentary…We turn therefore in the other direction to the elements of truest social portraiture, and discover in the artistic self-expression of the Negro to-day a new figure on the national canvas and a new force in the foreground of affairs.”The New Negro Movement of the 1920s marked a shift in the pursuit of ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, The

    by Alain Lesage ...
    Narrated by Locke ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 28 min

    Discover The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane, a timeless classic of French literature filled with adventure, humor, romance, and sharp social satire. Follow Gil Blas, a young man who leaves home to seek his fortune and encounters a fascinating world of nobles, servants, swindlers, clergy, and ambitious individuals. Through unexpected twists, personal struggles, and remarkable encounters, he ... Read more

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