The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings

by Alain Locke and Alain LeRoy Locke

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014313521X
• ISBN13: 9780143135210
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 7.6"