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Article: The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White.
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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Reviewed by
Claudia Tate Princeton University
The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, by George Hutchinson, is a book of monumental scope. It documents the development of a segment of African American literary tradition, generally known as the Harlem Renaissance, by placing that tradition within an encyclopedic genealogy of modern American literary culture. Hutchinson contends that the famous precursors to his study, namely Nathan Huggins's Harlem Renaissance (1971) and David Levering Lewis's When Harlem Was in Vogue (1981), limited their critical parameters "with too exclusive a focus upon issues of race, inadequate notions of American modernism, ...