Description: Panelists discuss Jeffrey Stewart's The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (2018) and consider emergent work on Locke as literary and art critic, philosopher, and theorist of culture and politics, presenting a rethinking of his contribution to the rise of “New Negro” discourses in the 1920s as well as an exploration of neglected aspects and periods of his critical output.

Speakers

Mark DiGiacomo, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Jay Garcia, New York U

Elizabeth McHenry, New York U

Nadia Nurhussein, Johns Hopkins U, MD

Surya Parekh, Binghamton U, State U of New York

Jeffrey Stewart, U of California, Santa Barbara

Presider

Surya Parekh, Binghamton U, State U of New York