The New Negro: An Interpretation (Hardback or Cased Book)

"So the choice is not between one way for the Negro and another way for the rest, but between American institutions frustrated on the one hand and American ideals progressively fulfilled and realized on the other."

-Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925)

The New Negro (1925) edited by Alain Locke is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays by artists who shaped the Harlem Renaissance such as W.E.B. du Bois, Walter Francis White, and Zora Neale Hurston, to name a few. With illustrations by Winold Reiss and Aaron Douglas, Locke defines the new negro as one who does not accept society's circumstances as of the old but seeks further rights and position in society. This in-depth look at the America of the early twentieth century juxtaposed to the America of today is for all who wish to deepen their understanding of the African American experience.

ALAIN LOCKE (1885-1954), most noted as the father of the Harlem Renaissance, was a distinguished American scholar, earning degrees from Harvard University and honored as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar. In addition to teaching philosophy at Howard University for nearly forty years, Locke heavily influenced black artists of the time and impacted American culture.