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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    19 November 2025
    20 November 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009566711
    9781009566681
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009566711
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.569kg, 316 Pages
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    • Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (198)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Editing, Literary Theory, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (198)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Editing, Literary Theory, Film, Media, Mass Communication
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    Martha H. Patterson's The Harlem Renaissance Weekly offers a groundbreaking study of the Black literary renaissance that appeared in weekly Black newspapers in the 1920s. In her richly contexualized readings, she uncovers a popular Harlem Renaissance deeply committed to political and social issues: the fight against lynching, segregation, and anti-miscegenation laws and to the challenges posed by urban vice, infidelity, and family separation during the Great Migration. Through mostly romantic plots, Black newspaper fiction writers emphasized that the cabaret and church, white and black race leader, flapper and race mother could be bridged on behalf of racial well-being and civil rights justice. As the Ku Klux Klan grew increasingly powerful, this fiction offered readers not only entertainment, but also cautionary advice, political hope, and weekly affirmation of their full humanity. With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this powerful study revises understanding of an important dimension of the Harlem Renaissance.

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      pp 1-36
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