The new Negro: the life of Alain Locke

Section I. The Education of Alain Locke

1. A Death and a Birth

2. A Black Victorian Childhood

3. Child God and Black Aesthete

4. An Errand of Culture at Howard College, 1904-1905

5. A Reluctant Prometheus : Locke's Intellectual Awakening at Harvard, 1905-1907

6. Going for the Rhodes

7. Oxford Contrasts

8. Black Cosmopolitan

9. Paying Second Year Dues at Oxford, 1908-1909

10. Italy and America, 1909-1910

11. Berlin Stories

12. Exile's Return

13. Back in the U.S.S.R., 1911-1912

14. Search for a Voice at Howard University, 1912-1916

15. Rapprochement and Silence : Harvard, 1916-1917

16. Fitting in Washington, DC, 1917-1922

Section II. Enter the New Negro

17. Rebirth

18. Queen Mother of the Movement, 1922-1923

19. Opportunity Knocks

20. Egypt Bound

21. Renaissance and Self-Fashioning in 1924

22. The Dinner and the Dean

23. Battling the Barnes

24. Looking for Love

25. Survey Says

26. Renaissance and Rejection

27. The New Negro and The Blacks

28. Beauty or Propaganda?

29. The Curator and the Patron

30. Langston's Indian Summer

31. The American Scholar

32. Loves' Labour Lost

Section III. Metamorphosis

33. The Naked and the Nude

34. The Saving Grace of Realism

35. Bronze Booklets, Gold Art

36. Warn A Brother

37. The Riot and the Ride

38. Conversion

39. Two Trains Running

40. Queer Toussaint

41. The Invisible Locke

42. FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy

43. Inclusion and Death : Wisdom de Profundis

44. Buried but not Dead

Epilogue.