{"id":19795,"date":"2012-01-13T04:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19795"},"modified":"2012-01-13T05:05:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T05:05:37","slug":"19795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19795","title":{"rendered":"The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?recid=25998\" target=\"_blank\">The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard University Press<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary 1996<br \/>\n560 pages<br \/>\n6-3\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780674372627<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~engweb\/faculty\/profile_gHutchinson.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">George Hutchinson<\/a><\/strong>, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies;\u00a0 Adjunct Professor of American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?recid=25998\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/images\/jackets\/9780674372627.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t all black or white. It wasn\u2019t a vogue. It wasn\u2019t a failure. By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harlem_Renaissance\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Renaissance<\/a>\u2014or blamed for corrupting it\u2014George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States. What has been missing from literary histories of the time is a broader sense of the intellectual context of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hutchinson supplies that here: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franz_Boas\" target=\"_blank\">Boas\u2019s<\/a> anthropology, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Ezra_Park\" target=\"_blank\">Park\u2019s<\/a> sociology, various strands of pragmatism and cultural nationalism\u2014ideas that shaped the New Negro movement and the literary field, where the movement flourished. Hutchinson tracks the resulting transformation of literary institutions and organizations in the 1920s, offering a detailed account of the journals and presses, black and white, that published the work of the &#8220;New Negroes.&#8221; This cultural excavation discredits bedrock assumptions about the motives of white interest in the renaissance, and about black relationships to white intellectuals of the period. It also allows a more careful investigation than ever before of the tensions among black intellectuals of the 1920s. Hutchinson\u2019s analysis shows that the general expansion of literature and the vogue of writing cannot be divorced from the explosion of black literature often attributed to the vogue of the New Negro\u2014any more than the growing sense of &#8220;Negro&#8221; national consciousness can be divorced from expanding articulations and permutations of American nationality. The book concludes with the first full-scale interpretation of the landmark anthology The New Negro.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA courageous work that exposes the oversimplifications and misrepresentations of popular readings of the Harlem Renaissance, this book reveals the truly composite nature of American literary culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White Harvard University Press January 1996 560 pages 6-3\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780674372627 George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of Literary Studies; Adjunct Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies;\u00a0 Adjunct Professor of American Studies Indiana University, Bloomington It wasn\u2019t all black or white. 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