Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology TheNew Negro, declared that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promoting, influencing, and sparring with such figures as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthé, William Grant Still, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, and John Dewey. The long-awaited first biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century America’s cultural and intellectual life. Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth trace this story through Locke’s Philadelphia upbringing, his undergraduate years at Harvard—where William James helped spark his influential engagement with pragmatism—and his tenure as the first African American Rhodes Scholar. The heart of their narrative illuminates Locke’s heady years in 1920s New York City and his forty-year career at Howard University, where he helped spearhead the adult education movement of the 1930s and wrote on topics ranging from the philosophy of value to the theory of democracy. Harris and Molesworth show that throughout this illustrious career—despite a formal manner that many observers interpreted as elitist or distant—Locke remained a warm and effective teacher and mentor, as well as a fierce champion of literature and art as means of breaking down barriers between communities. The multifaceted portrait that emerges from this engaging account effectively reclaims Locke’s rightful place in the pantheon of America’s most important minds.

Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher

Biographies & Memoirs

Molesworth, Charles

Harris, Leonard

Community & Culture

University of Chicago Press

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology TheNew Negro, declared that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promoting, influencing, and sparring with such figures as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthé, William Grant Still, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, and John Dewey. The long-awaited first biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century America’s cultural and intellectual life. Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth trace this story through Locke’s Philadelphia upbringing, his undergraduate years at Harvard—where William James helped spark his influential engagement with pragmatism—and his tenure as the first African American Rhodes Scholar. The heart of their narrative illuminates Locke’s heady years in 1920s New York City and his forty-year career at Howard University, where he helped spearhead the adult education movement of the 1930s and wrote on topics ranging from the philosophy of value to the theory of democracy. Harris and Molesworth show that throughout this illustrious career—despite a formal manner that many observers interpreted as elitist or distant—Locke remained a warm and effective teacher and mentor, as well as a fierce champion of literature and art as means of breaking down barriers between communities. The multifaceted portrait that emerges from this engaging account effectively reclaims Locke’s rightful place in the pantheon of America’s most important minds.

The Masada Plan

The Masada Plan: A Novel

Outlet

A fascinating and instructive account of how a family managed while suffering with breast cancer. The emotional strategies used by a father and a daughter while confronting a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal is a look at a father and daughter's relationship, set in the old south-Lexington, Kentucky, with its special history of compassion and yet racial divides; a story of unity in the face of diversity.A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal is told through edited entries from a journal maintained by the father, poetry from the daughter, and discussions of how to manage a family while fighting the terror of double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments.A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal revealsthe special fears occasioned by race when seeking medical support; thephilosophical and psychological issues one faces while confronting theuncertainty created by breast cancer. In addition, sources of information helpful for families to become cancer survivors is provided.

A Father's Journey, A Daughter's Voyage: A Cancer Journal: Father I Daughter We

Arts & Literature

iUniverse

The greed, fear, and envy occasioned by the forthcoming expose of Hampton society written by an unscrupulous columnist provide the motives for the murder of one of those scheming to profit from the article's publicaton or hoping to escape from its exposure

The Hamptons: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Simon&Schuster

Masada Plan

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

M.Joseph

A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader

Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought. Harris' writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark him out as a bold cultural commentator and a deft theoretician. The wealth and depth of Harris' writings are brought to the fore in this collection and the incisive introduction by Lee McBride serves to orient, contextualize, and frame an oeuvre that spans four decades. In his prolegomenon, Harris eschews the classical meaning of "philosophy," supplanting it with an idiosyncratic conception of philosophy-philosophia nata ex conatu-that features an avowedly value-laden dimension. As well as serving as an introduction to Harris' philosophy, A Philosophy of Struggle provides new insights into how we ought conceptualize philosophy, race, tradition, and insurrection in the 21st century.

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

White Crown Vic: An American Police Story

Independently published

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