Works of Alain Locke

<p>With the publication of <em>The New Negro</em> in 1925 Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author editor and patron Locke rightly earned the appellation "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance." Yet his intellectual contributions extend far beyond that single period of cultural history. Throughout his life he penned essays on topics ranging from John Keats to Sigmund Freud in addition to his trenchant social commentary on race and society.</p><p><em>The Works of Alain Locke</em> provides the largest collection available of his brilliant essays gathered from a career that spanned forty years. They cover an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy literature the visual arts music the theory of value race politics and multiculturalism. Alongside seminal works such as "The New Negro" the volume features essays like "The Ethics of Culture" "Apropos of Africa" and "Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy." Together these writings demonstrate Locke's standing as the leading African American thinker between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr.</p><p>The foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the introduction by</p>