Jeffrey Stewart.
JEFFREY STEWART
THE NEW NEGRO: THE LIFE OF ALAIN LOCKE (2018)
Winner of 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
In the prize-winning The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on primary sources and on interviews with those who knew him.
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Jeffrey Stewart (born 1950) is an American historian who is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Yale University. He has curated exhibitions on black history at the Smithsonian’s Ntional Portrait Gallery and at Rutgers University. He has had a longstanding interest in Jazz. In 2015 founded Jeffrey’s Jazz Coffeehouse in Santa Barbara; this operates in conjuction with his History of Jazz course.
