The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke

Section 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 Howard College, 1904-1905

5. A Reluctant Prometheus : Locke's Intellectual Awakening at Harvard, 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 Return

13. Back in the U.S.S.R., 1911-1912

14. Search for a Voice at Howard University, 1912-1916

15. Rapprochement and Silence : Harvard, 1916-1917

16. Fitting in Washington, DC, 1917-1922

Section II. Enter the New Negro

17. Rebirth

18. Queen Mother of the Movement, 1922-1923

19. Opportunity Knocks

20. Egypt Bound

21. Renaissance and Self-Fashioning in 1924

22. The Dinner and the Dean

23. Battling the Barnes

24. Looking for Love

25. Survey Says

26. Renaissance and Rejection

27. The New Negro and The Blacks

28. Beauty or Propaganda?

29. The Curator and the Patron

30. Langston's Indian Summer

31. The American Scholar

32. Loves' Labour Lost

Section 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. Conversion

39. Two Trains Running

40. Queer Toussaint

41. The Invisible Locke

42. FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy

43. Inclusion and Death : Wisdom de Profundis

44. Buried but not Dead

Epilogue.

Part I. The education of Alain Locke. A death and a birth ; A black Victorian childhood ; Child god and black aesthete ; An errand of culture at Harvard College, 1904-1905 ; Locke's intellectual awakening, 1905-1907 ; Going for the Rhodes ; Oxford contrasts ; Black cosmopolitan ; Paying second-year dues at Oxford, 1908-1909 ; Italy and America, 1909-1910 ; Berlin stories ; Exile's returns ; Race cosmopolitan comes home, 1911-1912 ; Radical sociologist at Howard University, 1912-1916 ; Rapprochement and silence : Harvard, 1916-1917 ; Fitting in Washington, D.C., 1917-1922

Part II. Enter the New Negro. Rebirth ; Mother of a movement, mothered in return, 1922-1923 ; Europe before Egypt ; Egypt bound ; Renaissance self-fashioning in 1924 ; The dinner and the dean ; Battling the Barnes ; Looking for love and finding the New Negro ; Harlem issues ; The New Negro and Howard ; The New Negro and the blacks ; Beauty or propaganda? ; Black curator and white momma ; Langston's Indian summer ; The American scholar ; On maternalism

Part III. Metamorphosis. The naked and the nude ; The saving grace of realism ; Bronze booklets, gold art ; Warn a brother ; The riot and the ride ; Transformation ; Two trains running ; The queer Toussaint ; The invisible Locke ; FBI, Haiti, and diasporic democracy ; Wisdom de profundis ; The New Negro lives.