[Review of] Alain LeRoy Locke (Jeffrey C. Stewart, ed.). Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race

Authors

Vernon Williams Jr

Orginal Publication Date

1993

Journal Title

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Volume

13

Issue

ess/vol13/iss1

First Page

34

Last Page

36

Abstract

Scholars of the history of race and race relations social science should be deeply indebted to Jeffrey C. Stewart for uncovering and meticulously reconstructing these extant lectures by the philosopher better known for his later contributions to the Harlem Renaissance than his social scientific theorizing: Alain LeRoy Locke. The book is an invaluable source on the thought of an African American intellectual on the subject of the nature of race relations during the Progressive Era and on its relationship to ethnic and class relations as well. So fecund are these lectures with insights and hypotheses which deserve further investigation and analysis that it would require a work of equal length to do justice to this collection of lectures. As a consequence, this review focuses only on Locke's treatment of race, race prejudice, and race relations.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1993