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Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance - Blacks in the Diaspora Author:Katharine Capshaw Smith The Harlem Renaissance inaugurated a tradition of African American childrens literature, for the movements central writers made youth both their subject and audience. W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offere... more »d to children, believing that the "New Negro" would ultimately arise from black youth. As a result, African American childrens literature became a crucial medium through which a disparate community forged bonds of cultural, economic, and aesthetic solidarity. Kate Capshaw Smith explores the periods vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation.« less