Chicago
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) is an American Professor of
Black Studies
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at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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.
He won the 2018
National Book Award for Nonfiction
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and the 2019
Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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for his book '' The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke'', described as "a panoramic view of the personal trials and artistic triumphs of the father of the
Harlem Renaissance
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and the movement he inspired".
Career
In 2002-03 Stewart was awarded a
Fulbright
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grant at the
Roma Tre University
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Founded in 1992 by the Ministry of Public Education, under the request of several prof ...
. He founded Jeffrey's Jazz Coffeehouse in 2015. He coordinates jazz performances in Isla Vista, the local community adjacent to UC Santa Barbara's campus, in conjunction with his History of Jazz course. In 2019 UC Santa Barbara alumni declared him an honorary alumnus as they recognized his achievements, notably his comprehensive biography of Alain LeRoy Locke.
Stewart has been
Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Terra Foundation's affiliate in
Giverny
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curator of exhibition ''To Color America: Portraits by Winold Reiss'' at the Smithsonian's
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* National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred
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*National Portrait Gallery, London
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;
curator of ''Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen'' at
Rutgers University
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;
and curator of conference entitled ''North Hall 50 Years After: A Black Vision of Change'' at UC Santa Barbara for the weekend of October 12–14, 2018.
Selected publications
*, which was a finalist for the 2018 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award.
*, winner of the 2017 Alfred H. Barr Award of the College Art Association.
*
References
Further reading
* Jeffrey C. Stewart, ''1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History'', Three Rivers Press; 59668th edition (May 4, 1998)
* Jeffrey C. Stewart, ''Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen'', Rutgers University Press
* Jeffrey C. Stewart and Alaine Locke, ''Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race'', Howard University Press
* Zack, Michele, ''Altadena: Between Wilderness and City''. Altadena, California: Altadena Historical Society, 2004.