Alain Locke

The New Negro: the life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Call Number: E185.97.L79 S83 2018
ISBN: 9780195089578
Publication Date: 2018
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro - the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness.In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance.

Alain Locke's "Enter the New Negro"
in 1925 Locke was asked to program the March edition of the progressive journal Survey Graphic, called “Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro.” In his introductory essay to the issue—”Enter the New Negro,” excerpted here—he assessed Harlem’s growing significance as the home of African American urban cultural pursuits.

A New Literary History of America. by Greil Marcus (Editor); Werner Sollors (Editor)
Call Number: PS92 .N39 2009
ISBN: 9780674035942
Publication Date: 2009
Book Chapter titled, "1936, July 5: Ralph Ellison meets Langston Hughes and Alain Locke outside the Harlem YMCA, leading to a meeting with Richard Wright the following year."
Available online at link above or in print from Library.

James A. Porter & Alain Locke on Race, Culture, and the Making of Art: A Roundtable
Rowell, Charles Henry ; Bradley, Rizvana ; Crawford, Margo Natalie ; McCluskey, John
Callaloo, 2016, Vol.39 (5), p.1169-1185.
Alain Locke on Race Relations: Some Political Implications of His Thought
Wright, Louis E. Journal of Black Studies, 2011, Vol.42 (4), p.665-689.
Although Alain Locke's works are well known, they have rarely been assessed for their direct significance as political theory. In this article, the author undertakes such an assessment by exposing the political implications of Locke's formulations on race in a number of lectures he conducted in 1916.
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Specifically, this article shows that although Locke's works have been interpreted as advocating a critical pragmatism on race, they put forth a new kind of racialism that is neither critical nor conservative, although decidedly radical. Exposing this makes it easier to see the connection between Locke's works and the earlier thinkers on race before the European Enlightenment as well as ways in which they anticipate important trends in contemporary political thought.
The Great Debate: W. E. B. Du Bois vs. Alain Locke on the Aesthetic
Harris, Leonard; Kalumba, Kibujjo M.
Philosophia Africana, 2004, Vol.7 (1), p.15-39.
Examines the debate between authors W.E.B Du Bois and Alain L. Locke on the nature of the beautiful and its role as an agent for social change. Features of Du Bois' concept of science; Du Bois' criticism of Locke's literary anthology, "The New Negro"; Difference between Du Bois and Locke's attitude toward Claude McKay's novel "Home to Harlem.

Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance
By Anastasia Curwood, 11/16/2018, Black Perspectives.
Alain LeRoy Locke
2012. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
A biography with links to his views on value theory, pluralism, relativism, aesthetics and philosophy of Race.
Alain Locke
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African-American History & Culture.
A brief biography with some primary source material (photos).
Alain Locke Society