UNESCO: PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS
UNESCO WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT “AFRICA AND ITS DIASPORA” SIMULCAST AND STREAMING LIVE 18-20 April 2011 PURDUE UNIVERSITY, USA Conference languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Alain L. Locke Society, coordination, Alainlocke.com Leonard Harris, Ph.D. lharrisconferences@purdue.edu Register at: www.conf.purdue.edu/pdaa The conference will bring together philosophers from throughout Africa, the African Diaspora, and the Americas (Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America) to address contemporary … [Read More...]
Open Letter of Support for Philosophy at Howard University
PURDUE U N I V E R S I T Y DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Leonard Harris, PH.D. PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, PH.D. PROGRAM November 1, 2010 To: Sidney Ribeau, President, Howard University and Presidential Commission on Academic Renewal, Howard University, 2400 Sixth Street, Washington DC 20059 From: Leonard Harris, Professor of Philosophy; Board, Alain Locke Society; co-author, Alain L. Locke, Biography of a Philosopher, University of Chicago Press, 2009; Chairman, Alain … [Read More...]
Carlin Romano Reviews New Alain Locke Biography
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 his few black student … [Read More...]
Page 99 Test Applied to New Alain Locke Biography
The Page 99 Test blog has a motto by Ford Madox Ford: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." Here's the test applied by authors Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth to the new biography of Alain Locke: Alain Locke was the first African American to win a Rhodes Scholarship - in 1907, after graduating from Harvard, he went to Oxford to extend his studies in philosophy and there formed his vocation to be a leader of his race. … [Read More...]
Locke’s Philosophy: Philosophic Values and World Citizenship
"Philosophic Values and World Citizenship is a Sankofan knockout to the all too common conversations in American philosophy that continue to overlook the significance of Alain Locke in pragmatism, preferring instead the stolid rhetoric of canonical figures—like John Dewey or Josiah Royce—who held incomplete (racially excluding) democratic visions. Carter and Harris have compiled an array of primary texts and secondary reflections that demonstrate the innovative foresight and conceptual … [Read More...]
Alain Locke’s Haiti Lectures in French
LE ROLE DU NEGRE DANS LA CULTURE DES AMÉRIQUES Alain LEROY LOCKE Présentation d’Anthony MANGEON Mangeon provides for the first time Locke's six lectures on Haiti, translated and published in French. In addition, he translated into French Locke's: “American literary tradition and the Negro” (1926), “The Negro in American Culture” (1939) and “Color : Unfinished business of Democracy” (1942). It also comes with biographical and bibliographical notes on (almost) everyone quoted … [Read More...]
New Book: Alain Locke Biography
View Cover Endorsements by Appiah, Rampersad, and West Order Today from University of Chicago Press Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher 448 pages, 21 halftones 6 x 9 © 2008 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 … [Read More...]
