The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke

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

Epilogue.