Harlem Renaissance

" Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance is a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. A superb portrait of one of the signal episodes in African-American and American history (1) 4-6-F (1) A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award (1) African American (8) African American literature (3) African-Americans; African-American History; Harlem Renaissance; New New Renaissance; African-American Culture; African-American Studies (2) Analysis of Harlem Renaissance (1) and cultural forces in the culture at large. (1) and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins (1) and W.E.B. DuBois and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay (1) books-i-own-that-are-to-be-read (1) FMF Project (1) hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative (1) Hallway 3.2 (1) Harlem Renaissance (11) he didn't want Harlem in the 1920s to be the focus of the book so much as a lens through which readers might see how this one moment in time sheds light on the American character and culture (1) HistoryHistorical (2) Huggins (2) Huggins illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke (1) Huggins L01 (1) Huggins L02 (1) is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. As Huggins himself noted (1) library lower left shelf (1) nonfiction-history (2) not just in Harlem but across the nation. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic (1) Social Sciences 10 (1) sociology and anthropology: Groups of people (1) source-Denis&Katie (1) this volume offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history (1) throughout the book (1)