Mediating "race" and "nation:" the cultural politics of 'The Messenger.' (magazine)

African American Review | December 22, 1994| | Copyright

Studies of the Harlem Renaissance have so far paid insufficient attention to American cultural nationalism as an important locus of transracial ideological contestation during the 1920s. Since Nathan Huggins's rather surprising conclusion that "New Negro" authors "failed" in part because of a failure to claim their "American nativity" (308), scholars have focused on the black cultural nationalist, integrationist, and pan-Africanist aspects of the multi-faceted literary movement but have not carefully examined the diverse approaches of black authors to the issue of their ...

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