‘People are recovering all kinds of voices,’ says the Brandeis professor. ‘We’re changing what history looks like. And I’m honored to be a part of that.’ When Ramie Targoff teaches her women’s ...
Harlem Renaissance writers criticized unfair practices and fought for racial justice. Zora Neale Hurston, best known for her book, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” studied African American and ...
In A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt (St. Martin’s, Feb.), the Bowdoin College literature professor chronicles the life of novelist Charles W. Chesnutt. How did ...
The celebrated Harlem Renaissance author was inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race teenager and young adult in the Danish capital, a time that informed her 1928 novel, “Quicksand.” Retracing the ...
It is hard to imagine some of the most revered members of the Harlem Renaissance — that famed black artistic and cultural rebirth of the 1930s — working as hired hands in Hollywood. And yet, legendary ...
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