Contents

Acknowledgments

PART I THE EDUCATION OF ALAIN LOCKE

1. A Death and a Birth

2. A Black Victorian Childhood

3. Child God and Black Aesthete

4. An Errand of Culture at Harvard College, 1904–1905

5. Locke’s Intellectual Awakening, 1905–1907

6. Going for the Rhodes

7. Oxford Contrasts

8. Black Cosmopolitan

9. Paying Second-Year Dues at Oxford, 1908–1909

10. Italy and America, 1909–1910

11. Berlin Stories

12. Exile’s Returns

13. Race Cosmopolitan Comes Home, 1911–1912

14. Radical Sociologist at Howard University, 1912–1916

15. Rapprochement and Silence: Harvard, 1916–1917

16. Fitting in Washington, D.C., 1917–1922

PART II ENTER THE NEW NEGRO

18. Mother of a Movement, Mothered in Return, 1922–1923

19. Europe Before Egypt

20. Egypt Bound

21. Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1924

22. The Dinner and the Dean

23. Battling the Barnes

24. Looking for Love and Finding the New Negro

25. Harlem Issues

26. The New Negro and Howard

27. The New Negro and The Blacks

28. Beauty or Propaganda?

29. Black Curator and White Momma

30. Langston’s Indian Summer

31. The American Scholar

32. On Maternalism

PART III METAMORPHOSIS

33. The Naked and the Nude

34. The Saving Grace of Realism

35. Bronze Booklets, Gold Art

36. Warn a Brother

37. The Riot and the Ride

38. Transformation

39. Two Trains Running

40. The Queer Toussaint

41. The Invisible Locke

42. FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy

43. Wisdom de Profundis

44. The New Negro Lives

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