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Hace 2 días · June 19, 2024. It was a banner day in the history of American libraries — and in Black history. On May 25, 1926, the New York Public Library announced that it had acquired the celebrated Afro ...
Hace 2 días · So, the talented actor turned to Harlem Renaissance legend Claude McKay. The poet, like Isherwood, traveled to Berlin in the 1930s, but for more poignant reasons. “One of the things that Claude McKay said was that he felt that he could be treated like a human in Europe, Berlin specifically,” says Blankson-Wood, while reclining on a couch in the Playbill office.
Hace 3 días · In contrast to Hughes's appropriation of the form of black music, especially jazz and the blues, and his use of the black vernacular, Claude McKay and Countee Cullen utilized more traditional and classical forms for their poetry.
Hace 2 días · In Roanoke, Va., which in 1921 had opened one of the first branch libraries for Black readers in the South, a young librarian named Virginia Lee established a Jessie Fauset reading club (one of the many Black literary groups that sprung up across the country that decade named for a Harlem Renaissance figure) and quietly started assembling a collection of several hundred books “by and about ...
Hace 1 día · Arna Bontemps’s anthology Golden Slippers (1941) included work by well-known poets such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. Harlem Renaissance children’s books also included Hughes’s The Dream Keeper and Other Poems (1932); Bontemps’s You Can’t Pet a Possum (1934), illustrated by Ilse Bischoff ...
Hace 3 días · If the New Negroes of the Harlem Renaissances sought to erase their received racist image in the Western imagination, they also erased their racial selves, imitating those they least resembled in demonstrating the full intellectual potential of the black mind.
Hace 4 días · At the crux of the Harlem Renaissance lay an efflorescence of African American literature, spearheaded by luminaries such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Claude McKay. These literary luminaries harnessed their literary acumen to delve into themes of racial dignity, cultural lineage, and the African American saga.
