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A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as'brilliant'and'provocative,'Nathan Huggins'Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes,'Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history.'Indeed, Huggins offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history, literature, music, psychology, and folklore, he illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins, throughout the book, is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. As Huggins himself noted, 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

Author

the late Nathan Irvin Huggins

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195016659

Subjects

Science, History, Sociology

Rating

4.08 / 5 (111 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14