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An American Friendship -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: What Difference Does the Difference Make? Cultural Pluralism as Friendship -- 1. From Berenstadt to Boston -- 2. The Talented among the Tenth -- 3. Locke and Kallen, Student and Teacher -- 4. American Pluralists, Friends at Oxford -- 5. The Plural Is Political -- 6. Plural in Culture, Universal in Religion -- 7. Friendship Rekindled, Pluralism Refined -- 8. Locke's Legacy, Kallen's Memory -- Conclusion: Differences Made -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Alain Locke, the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world, from Aristotle to Obama. For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations' define new-and controversial-terrain

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Contours of Black Intellectual History (Keisha N. Blain, Christopher Cameron, and Ashley D. Farmer) -- Part I. Black Internationalism -- Introduction (Michael O. West) -- "Every Wide-Awake Negro Teacher of French Should Know": The Pedagogies of Black Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century (Celeste Day Moore) -- Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and the New Negro Renaissance: Bernardo Ruiz Suárez's The Color Question in the Two Americas (Reena N. Goldthree) -- "To Start Something to Help These People": African American Women and the Occupation of Haiti, 1915- 1934 (Brandon R. Byrd) -- Part II. Religion and Spirituality -- Introduction (Judith Weisenfeld) -- Isolated Believer: Alain Locke, Baha'i Secularist (David Weinfeld) -- The New Negro Renaissance and African American Secularism (Christopher Cameron) -- "I Had a Praying Grandmother": Religion, Prophetic Witness, and Black Women's Herstories (LeRhonda S. Manigault- Bryant) -- Part III. Racial Politics and Struggles for Social Justice -- Introduction (Pero Gaglo Dagbovie) -- Historical Ventriloquy: Black Thought and Sexual Politics in the Interracial Marriage of Frederick Douglass (Guy Emerson Mount) -- Reigning Assimilationists and Defiant Black Power: The Struggle to Define and Regulate Racist Ideas (Ibram X. Kendi) -- Becoming African Women: Women's Cultural Nationalist Theorizing in the US Organization and the Committee for Unified Newark (Ashley D. Farmer) -- Part IV. Black Radicalism -- Introduction (Robin D. G. Kelley) -- Runaways, Rescuers, and the Politics of Breaking the Law (Christopher Bonner) -- Conspiracies, Seditions, Rebellions: Concepts and Categories in the Study of Slave Resistance (Gregory Childs) -- African American Expats, Guyana, and the Pan- African Ideal in the 1970s (Russell Rickford) -- Contributors -- Index