The Works of Alain Locke

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Introduction Note on the Text and Acknowledgments

I. Literature

1. On Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905) 2."The Romantic Movement As Expressed by John Keats" (1907) 3. "Emile Verhaeren" (1917) 4. "Colonial Literature of France" (1923) 5. "The Younger Literary Movement" (1923); co authored with Du Bois 6. Review of Countee Cullen's Color (1926) 7. Review of Langston Hughes The Weary Blues (1926) 8. Review of Langston Hughes' Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927) 9. "The Poetry of Negro Life" (Preface to Four Negro Poets, 1926) 10. "American Literary Tradition and the Negro"(1926) 11. Review of FIRE!!(1927) 12. "Message of the Negro Poets"(1927) 13. Foreword to Georgia Douglas Johnson's An Autumn Love Cycle (1928) 14 ."Both Sides of the Color Line" (Review of W. Thurman and J. Fauset (1929) 15. "Negro Minority in American Literature"(1946)

II. Art, Drama and Music

1. "Steps Toward the Negro Theatre" (1922) 2. "A Note on African Art" (1924) 3. "The Negro Spirituals" (1925) 4. "More of the Negro in Art" (1925) 5. "The Negro and the American Stage" (1926) 6. "Drama of Negro Life" (1926) 7. "The Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection" (1927) 8. "The American Negro as Artist" (1931) 9. "Toward a Critique of Negro Music"(1934) 10. Excerpt from The Negro and His Music (1936) 11. Excerpt from Negro Art: Past and Present (1936) 12. "Negro Music Goes to Par" (1939) 13. "Broadway and Negro Drama" (1941)



III. Esthetics

1. "Impressions of Luxor"(1923) 2. "Internationalism: Friend or Foe? (1925) 3. "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925) 4. "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" (1925) 5. "African Art: Classic Style" (1935) 6. "Negro in American Culture"(1929) 7. "Our Little Renaissance" (1927) 8. "Beauty Instead of Ashes" (1928) 9. "Art or Propaganda?" (1928) 10. "Beauty and the Provinces" (1929) 11. "Spiritual Truancy" (1928, on Claude McKay) 12. "Propaganda - or Poetry?" (1936) 13. "The Negro's Contribution to American Culture" (1939)



IV. Race

1."Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations" (1915) 2. "Apropos of Africa" (1924) 3. "The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture" (1924) 4. "The Problem of Race Classification" (1923) 5. "Should the Negro be Encouraged to Cultural Equality" (1927) 6. "Contribution of Race to Culture" (1930) 7. "Slavery in the Modern Manner"(1931) 8. "Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane" (1936) 9. Foreword to Frederick Douglass's Life and Times(1940) 10. "Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary" (1944) 11. "The Negro in the Three Americas" (1944)



A SPECIAL SECTION:

When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Cultural Contacts (1942): Interchapters, written by Locke.



V. Value and Culture

1. "Oxford by A Negro Student" (1909) 2."The American Temperament" (1911) 3. "The Ethics of Culture" (1923) 4. "The New Negro" (1925) 5. "Values and Imperatives" (1935) 6. "Value" (1935) 7. "A Functional View of Value Ultimates"(1945) 8. "Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension of Culture" (1950) 9. "Frontiers of Culture" (1950) 10. "Values That Matter" (Review of Perry, 1954) 11. "Freud and Scientific Morality" (n.d.)



VI. Democracy

1. "The Mandate System: A New Code of Empire"(1927) 2. "The Negro Vote and the New Deal" (1936) 3. "Ballad for Democracy" (1940) 4. "Color: Unfinished Business of Democracy" (1942) 5. "Democracy Faces a World Order" (1942) 6. "Cultural Relativism and Ideological Peace"(1942) 7. "Moral Imperatives for World Order" (1944) 8. Review of Du Bois's Color and Democracy (1945) 9. "Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy" (1946) 10. "Pluralism and Ideological Peace"(1947)



Index