"Harlem"
Journal article
By: Alain Locke
Date: March 1925
Source: Locke, Alain. "Harlem." Survey Graphic, March 1925, 629–630. Available online at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/LocHarlF.html; website home page: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu (accessed April 24, 2003).
About the Author: Alain Leroy Locke (1885–1954) graduated from Harvard in 1907 and taught education at Howard University from 1912 to 1917, then philosophy from 1917 until his death. Locke was the first African American Rhodes scholar. His primary research focused on the theory that race existed only as a social construct. During the Harlem Renaissance, the controversial Locke argued for a sort of cultural pluralism following his notion that culture could be molded and enhanced. His most famous work,...
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