Harlem symbolized the urbanization of black America in the 1920s
and 1930s. Home to the largest concentration of African Americans
who settled outside the South, it spawned the literary and artistic
movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Its writers were in the
vanguard of an attempt to come to terms with black urbanization.
They lived it and wrote about it.
First published in 1988, "Black Culture and the Harlem
Renaissance" examines the relationship between the community and
its literature. Author Cary Wintz analyzes the movement's emergence
within the framework of the black social and intellectual history
of early twentieth-century America. He begins with Booker T.
Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others whose work broke barriers
for the Renaissance writers to come.
With an emphasis on social issues--like writers and politics, the
role of black women, and the interplay between black writers and
the white community--Wintz traces the rise and fall of the
movement. Of special interest is material from the Knopf Collection
and the papers of several Renaissance figures acquired by the Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at
Austin. It reveals much of interest about the relationship between
the publishing world, its writers, and their patrons--both black
and white.
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