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Article: The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many.(Review)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Mark Helbling. The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many. Westport: Greenwood, 1999. 211 pp. $57.95.
Mark Heibling has written a useful, intelligent book, but his title is misleading. His slant on the Harlem Renaissance is very selective, and a more accurate title might have been "The Anthropological Influence upon the Harlem Renaissance," or, more specifically, "Franz Boas, Melville Herskovits, Ruth Benedict, and Five Writers of the Harlem Renaissance." Other significant personalities get thrown into the loop--e.g., the German philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder, the art collector Albert C. Barnes, and the distinguished photographer Alfred Stieglitz--but ...