Intellect, Art, Culture: Legacies of The New Negro; A Forum on Jeffrey C. Stewart's Biography of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart's The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Biography as well as a host of other honors from many disciplines. Among these are the 2018 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Nonfiction, the 2019 James A. Rawley Prize for History from the Organization of American Historians, and the 2019 Mark Lynton History Prize of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards from the Neiman Foundation of Journalism Harvard University and the Columbia University School Of Journalism. Locke curated the most well-known collection of literature and art, The New Negro: An Interpretation (1 925), that heralded the coalescence of a new era of Black arts and letters called the Harlem Renaissance, and the modern subjectivity they announced. Locke identified and called for a change in consciousness that took place alongside similar reconceptualizations of political consciousness around the globe.