Alain LeRoy Locke

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Alain LeRoy Locke (born September 13, 1886 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † June 9, 1954 in New York City ) was an American philosopher . He is considered the "father of the Harlem Renaissance ".

Life

Alain Locke's parents were Pliny Ishmael Locke (1850-1892) and Mary Hawkins Locke (1853-1922). Second best, he graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia in 1902 . In 1907 Locke finished his English and philosophy studies at Harvard University . He was the first African American to receive a Rhodes Scholarship . Locke was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic association . Nevertheless, because of his skin color, several colleges in Oxford denied him access until he was finally admitted to Hertford College , where he studied literature, philosophy, Greek and Latin from 1907 to 1910. In 1910 Locke studied at theUniversity of Berlin Philosophy; In 1911 he attended the Collège de France in Paris.

As a lecturer in English at Howard University in Washington, DC, he worked with WEB Du Bois and Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950). In 1916 Locke worked at Harvard on his dissertation on The Problem of Classification in the Theory of Value ; In 1918 he was awarded a Ph.D. PhD in philosophy. Locke returned to Howard University, where he led the philosophy department until his retirement in 1953.

Locke frequented the literary salon of the writer Georgia Douglas Johnson and also included her, as one of only a few women, in his anthology Plays of Negro Life: a Source Book of Native American Drama .

Works

  • The New Negro: An Interpretation . New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925.
  • Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro. Survey Graphic 6.6 (March 1, 1925).
As editor
  • Plays of Negro Life: A Source-Book of Native American Drama . Harper and Brothers, New York 1927.

literature

  • Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth: Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher . The University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  • Jeffrey C. Stewart: The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke , New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2018], ISBN 978-0-19-508957-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buck, Christopher. " Alain Locke - Faith and Philosophy " Studies in Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, Vol 18, Anthony A. Lee General Editor, pp. 11-12 - ISBN 978-1-890688-38-7
  2. ↑ http://queercult.com/2010/11/03/alain-locke/
  3. ↑ Biography: Alain Leroy Locke , Biography.com. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  4. ↑ The book received the Pulitzer Prize 2019 in the biography section.
personal data
SURNAME Locke, Alain LeRoy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1954
Place of death New York City