The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

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A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism. In the 1920s and ’30s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of art, writing, and ideas that has since become legendary. But what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance, the first movement of international modern art led by African Americans, extended far beyond New York City. This volume examines for the first time the Harlem Renaissance as part of a global flowering of Black…