Alain Locke's New Negro: Of Words and Images

Lai-Henderson, Selina

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These essays encourage a deeper understanding of creative ways of resisting and contributing, which African Americans have shown consistently throughout U.S. history.

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Selina Lai-Henderson

Assistant Professor of American Literature and History at Duke Kunshan University

I am a US literary historian. My major intellectual theme--rethinking American writers from global perspectives--situates US literature in the transnational frame of China and in translation. I am the author of Mark Twain in China (Stanford UP, 2015), and I am writing a second book, "You Are No Darker Than I Am:" Afro-Asian Imaginary and Encounters. I co-direct Freedom Lab (Research Humanities Center, DKU) and am Senior Associate Managing Editor of&nbsp

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