A review by austindoherty
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart

4.0

Portrait of a man pinioned between ushering in a radically new Black subjectivity and the realities of white patronage. Will he be credentialed, or not? Hired, or not? Fired, or not? Basically, will he be funded, or not. The first 400 pages or so Locke mostly just writes his mother for money, and the overall impression I'm left with is a man constrained in a web of purse strings, notable as much for his realized contributions as his thwarted ones