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Alain Locke and the Associates in Negro Folk Education


             ---. The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1979. Print. This book has 15 editions published between 1940 and 1979 and held by 1,097 libraries worldwide.
             ---. The Negro Spirituals. Indianapolis, Ind: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970s. Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies; BC-185; Variation: Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies; BC-185. Print. This book has been reprinted from The New Negro, Alain Locke (ed.), Boni, (1925) and is available for readers in Jackson State University Library in Alabama.
             ---. The New Negro: An Interpretation. New York: Arno Press, 1968. The American Negro, His History and Literature; Variation: American Negro, His History and Literature. Print. Reprint of the 1925 ed. Bibliography: p. 421-446. This book has been reprinted and anthologized countless times.
             Section II: Biography.
             There are several biographies on Alain Locke but Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth in the Alain Locke: Biography of a Philosopher writes the first full length biography. Harris and Molesworth in their 2008 biography describes Locke's life and his published works takes into account relevant materials found in the Howard University archives and draws from Locke's extensive correspondence. While classified as a biography critic Sanford Pinsker in his review of the biography disagrees with Harris and Molesworth saying they put appropriate shadings in a biography that might have tilted toward hagiography. Alain L. Locke decidedly does not. Nor does it, what Joyce Caro Oats calls "pathography," a study that emphasizes a writer's alcoholism, drug addiction, or other maladies at the expense of the art. .
             Pinsker also states that Harris and Molesworth biography also does not falsify the facts of Locke's nearly four decade long relationship with Howard University, subsequent biographies of Locke will surely be written in the next ten or twenty years but not without fully taking the Harris-Molesworth into account.


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