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

4.0

A masterful biography of one of the main architect's of the Harlem Renaissance, teaching me that he was so much more than the editor of 1925's The New Negro. It's undeniably a dense, academic biography: lots of detail, lots of footnotes, lots of heady content---from distillations of the philosophical arguments in Locke’s graduate theses, to psychological analysis of Locke’s behaviors and motivations, to detailed shout-outs and allusions to the many artists, authors, and cultural figures who crossed his path. If that kind of intellectual rigor is something you enjoy, I will say the book is really really good!

Full review here: https://anotherchange.wordpress.com/2019/01/12/the-new-negro-the-life-of-alain-locke-by-jeffrey-c-stewart/