Part I. The Education of Alain Locke. A Death and a Birth
A Black Victorian Childhood
Child God and Black Aesthete
An Errand of Culture at Harvard College, 1904-1905
Locke's Intellectual Awakening, 1905-1907
Paying Second-Year Dues at Oxford, 1908-1909
Italy and America, 1909-1910
Race Cosmopolitan Comes Home, 1911-1912
Radical Sociologist at Howard University, 1912-1916
Rapprochement and Silence : Harvard, 1916-1917
Fitting in Washington, D.C., 1917-1922
Part II. Enter the New Negro. Rebirth
Mother of a Movement, Mothered in Return, 1922-1923
Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1924
Looking for Love and Finding the New Negro
The New Negro and The Blacks
Black Curator and White Momma
Part III. Metamorphosis. The Naked and the Nude
The Saving Grace of Realism
Bronze Booklets, Gold Art
FBI, Haiti, and Diasporic Democracy