{"product_id":"harlem-renaissance-9780195063363","title":"Harlem Renaissance","description":"A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e as \"brilliant\" and \"provocative,\" Nathan Huggins' \u003cem\u003eHarlem Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Rampersad notes, \"\u003cem\u003eHarlem Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e 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 one moment in time sheds light on the American character and culture, not just in Harlem but across the nation. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic, historical, and cultural forces in the culture at large. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis superb reissue of \u003cem\u003eHarlem Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e brings to a new generation of readers one of the great works in African-American history and indeed a landmark work in the field of American Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNathan Irvin Huggins\u003c\/strong\u003e was W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies and Director of the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University until his death in 1989. His books include \u003cem\u003eSlave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass, Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVoices From the Harlem Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003eArnold Rampersad\u003c\/strong\u003e is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University and is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Life of Langston Hughes\u003c\/em\u003e, among other titles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459966767378,"sku":"9780195063363","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4b05534d-4573-4617-83f2-7eedef45dd20.jpg?v=1730018530","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/harlem-renaissance-9780195063363","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}