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The Harlem Renaissance Weekly

By Patterson, Martha H.

The Harlem Renaissance Weekly

By Patterson, Martha H.

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Martha H. Patterson's The Harlem Renaissance Weekly offers a groundbreaking study of the Black literary renaissance that appeared in weekly Black newspapers in the 1920s. In her richly contexualized readings, she uncovers a popular Harlem Renaissance deeply committed to political and social issues: the fight against lynching, segregation, and anti-miscegenation laws and to the challenges posed by urban vice, infidelity, and family separation during the Great Migration. Through mostly romantic plots, Black newspaper fiction writers emphasized that the cabaret and church, white and black race leader, flapper and race mother could be bridged on behalf of racial well-being and civil rights justice. As the Ku Klux Klan grew increasingly powerful, this fiction offered readers not only entertainment, but also cautionary advice, political hope, and weekly affirmation of their full humanity. With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this powerful study revises understanding of an important dimension of the Harlem Renaissance.
Product details
Number of Pages:
316
Release Date:
2025-10-31
Publication Date:
2025-10-18
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009566687
ISBN13:
9781009566681
Weight:
666 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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