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    Alain L. Locke: Biography of a Philosopher Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth. Univ. of Chicago, $45 (400p) ISBN 978-0-226-31776-2
    Philosophy professor Harris and English professor Molesworth fuse disciplines in this groundbreaking study of Locke (1885–1954), the preeminent African-American aesthetician and philosopher in the years between WWI and WWII, most familiar as the editor of the New [...]

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PBOS XVI (2009): Fayetteville State Univ., Oct. 23-24

DATE SAVER PHILOSOPHY BORN OF STRUGGLE PBOS.COM Sixteen Annual Conference FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY Fayetteville, NC OCTOBER 23-24, 2009 Contact for submission and information: J. Everet Green Everet@optonline.net Leonard Harris lharrisl@hotmail.com Blanch Radford-Curry bcurry@uncfsu.edu

PBOS XV: PHILOSOPHY AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Fifteenth Annual Conference October 24 & 25, 2008 Michigan State University Union -The Parlor Room This conference will seek to explore the conceptual ...

16th Meeting of the Alain Locke Society

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PBOS XVI (2009): Fayetteville State Univ., Oct. 23-24

DATE SAVER
PHILOSOPHY BORN OF STRUGGLE
PBOS.COM
Sixteen Annual Conference
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
Fayetteville, NC
OCTOBER 23-24, 2009
Contact for submission and information:
J. Everet Green
Everet@optonline.net
Leonard Harris
lharrisl@hotmail.com
Blanch Radford-Curry
bcurry@uncfsu.edu

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Why I Campaign for Obama:

I campaign on behalf of Obama because his candidacy is a welcomed watershed in American political and emotional culture. Locke observed in The New Negro, 1925, that African Americans were often described as a problem, “something to be argued about, condemned or defended, to be ‘kept down,’ or ‘in his place,’ or ‘helped up,’ [...]

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A fine first biography of thinker Alain Locke

Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
By Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
University of Chicago Press
432 pp. $45

Reviewed by Carlin Romano
Inquirer Book Critic
When Philadelphia-born Alain L. Locke (1885-1954), the first African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship, wrote home to his mother shortly after beginning undergraduate life at Harvard, he didn’t exactly express solidarity with [...]