When Harlem Was in Vogue
by David Levering Lewis
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Author: David Levering LewisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-06-01
ISBN: 0140263349
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: When Harlem was in vogue
Summary: 5 Stars
This is another great reference book with historical as well as antidotal information about Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. I liked the detailed information Lewis gives about salaries, and the cost of living--groceries, rent and clothing back then.
What I appreciated in a major way, was the global view Lewis provided--putting into prospective what going on in white America and comparing it to activities in Harlem, DC and the Deep South from the beginning of World War I until the Great Depression.
Lewis also introduces some of the major players in Harlem's literary world--Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, Claude Mc Kay, Carl Van Vechten, Richard Bruce Nugent, Sterling Brown, Nella Larsen, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Marcus Garvey, Alaine Locke, Wallace Thurman and A'Lelia Walker Robinson to mention a few.
This is an impressive piece of historical research work that should be required reading in all American schools.
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