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By Wallace Thurman,Amritjit Singh

Modern Library Harlem Renaissance

It's Twenties Harlem, and guy, the joint is jumpin'. fogeys are coming and going and everything's copacetic so long as the gin retains flowing. this is often the scene Stephen Jorgenson dives into while he arrives from Canada for the 1st time. he's taken to "The Niggerati Manor," an condo construction in Harlem inhabited by means of aspiring artists whose  true skills lie in residing, and the place everything's black and white--with loads of grayness in among. Counterbalancing Stephen's include of those parents is Raymond Taylor, a author who's the single actually proficient artist within the manor. Raymond's cynical tackle the "new Negro artist" is the tightrope he walks among the affection and hatred of himself and his humans. Characters representing Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke all look, and a part of the joys of this ebook is determining who is who.

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