The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings TC_Bestseller A product of electrifying scholarship

A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning

Though she raised her eldest son to become one of the world's greatest leaders

To their suburban Minnesotan neighbors

The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings TC_Bestseller A product of electrifying scholarshipPulitzer 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 experiences as Black