Alain Locke
(noun)
Alain Leroy Locke (1885–1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts.
Examples of Alain Locke in the following topics:
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The "New Negro"
- The term was made popular by Alain LeRoy Locke and has been used in African-American discourses since 1895.
- In several essays included in the anthology The New Negro (1925), which grew out of the 1924 special issue of Survey Graphic on Harlem, editor Alain Locke contrasted the "Old Negro" with the "New Negro" by stressing African-American assertiveness and self-confidence during the years following World War I and the Great Migration.
- No one better articulated the hopes and possibilities associated with the idea and ideal of the "New Negro" than the Harvard-trained philosophy professor Alain Locke, who later described himself as the "midwife" to aspiring young black writers of the 1920s.
- Alain Locke was a prominent leader of the New Negro movement in the mid-1920s.
- Describe the ideal of the "New Negro" articulated by Hubert Harrison, Matthew Kotleski and Alain Locke
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The Harlem Renaissance
- At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
- Some authors who became nationally known were Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Eric D.
- He also began studying with Winold Reiss, a German artist who had been hired by Alain Locke to illustrate The New Negro.
- Locke, who were pressing for young African American artists to express their African heritage and African American folk culture in their art.
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The Harlem Renaissance
- It sprang up as part of the "New Negro Movement," a political movement founded in 1917 and later named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
- Popularized by writer and philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke, the New Negro concept received its greatest attention during the peak years, about 1917 to 1928, when it became better known as the Harlem Renaissance.
- No one better articulated the hopes and possibilities associated with the idea and ideal of the "New Negro" than the Harvard-trained philosophy professor Alain LeRoy Locke, who later described himself as the "midwife" to aspiring young black writers of the 1920s.
- Notable Harlem Renaissance figures included Locke, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Nella Larson, Wallace Thurman, and Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Alain Locke, and Eric D.
- A portrait of Alain LeRoy Locke, leader of the New Negro Movement and inspirational figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Literature
- The Harlem Renaissance was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
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A Multicultural Society
- Du Bois, and Alain Locke developed concepts of cultural pluralism, from which emerged what we understand today as multiculturalism.
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Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period
- Notable Harlem Renaissance figures included Alain Locke, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
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John Locke
- Although a capable student, Locke was irritated by the undergraduate curriculum of the time.
- Locke never married nor had children.
- However, Locke did not demand a republic.
- Portrait of John Locke, by Sir Godfrey Kneller,1697, State Hermitage Museum, St.
- Locke was the first to define the self through a continuity of consciousness.
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The American Enlightenment
- Historians have considered how the ideas of John Locke and republican ideas merged together to form republicanism in the United States.
- For example, the English political theorist John Locke was a significant source of influence and inspiration to the American intellectual elite.
- Instead, Locke argued that governments were created through a social contract with the people, and a ruler who broke this contract could be legitimately deposed through violent or peaceful means.
- Essentially, Locke claimed that since men created governments, they could also alter or abolish them.
- John Locke is often credited with the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.
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Setting Goals
- Locke began to examine goal setting in the mid-1960s and continued researching goal setting for thirty years.
- Locke derived the idea for goal-setting from Aristotle's form of final causality.
- Aristotle speculated that purpose can cause action; thus, Locke began researching the impact goals have on individual activity of its time performance.
- Locke began to examine goal setting, a topic he continued to explore for thirty years.
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The Bill of Rights
- Locke also advanced the notion that each individual is free and equal in the state of nature.
- Unlike Thomas Hobbes, Locke believed that human nature is characterized by reason and tolerance.
- Like Hobbes, Locke believed that human nature allowed men to be selfish.
- However, Locke never refers to Hobbes by name and may instead have been responding to other writers of the day.
- Locke also advocated governmental separation of powers and believed that revolution is not only a right but an obligation in some circumstances.