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'The New Negro' explores Alain Locke not only as writer but also as a thinker and a fighter

Jeffrey Stewart's impressive new book, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, confronts for the whole of its great length the “two-ness” described often by W. E. B. Du Bois in his masterpiece, "The Souls of Black Folk" – “this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”

In describing Locke's life as a black man, a thinker

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