The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader

by Shawn Anthony Christian

Many scholars have written about the white readers and patrons of the Harlem Renaissance, but during the period many black writers, publishers, and editors worked to foster a cadre of African American readers, or in the poet Sterling Brown's words, a "reading folk." Black newspapers featured columns that reviewed the latest African American fiction. Magazines held writing contests to urge black readers to participate in the literary culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625342012
• ISBN13: 9781625342010
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher