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Claude McKay

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Home to Harlem Summary

Jake enlists in the US army but deserts after it is clear that his role there is purely menial. After going to England and living with a white woman, he gets on a freighter to go back home. In Harlem, Jake picks up an attractive brown woman, who demands fifty dollars. After sleeping with this woman, outside Jake finds out that she has given him the money back. Jake, to his...

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Mckay, Claude

3,490 words, approx. 12 pages

Claude Mckay Born September 15, 1890 Sunny Ville, Jamaica Died May 22, 1948 Chicago, Illinois Jamaican-born American poet, journalist, essayist, and novelist Claude McKay. (Courtesy of the Librar... Read more

Mckay, Claude (1890-1948)

226 words, approx. 1 pages

Mckay, Claude (1890-1948) While scholar Alain Locke and novelist James Weldon Johnson attempted to make the Harlem Renaissance palatable to white audiences, Claude McKay rose to prominence as the most... Read more

Home to Harlem

3,702 words, approx. 13 pages

Home to Harlem by Claude McKay Bom in Jamaica in 1890, Claude McKay immigrated to America at the age of twentytwo to study scientific farming at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He transferred to Kan... Read more

Claude McKay Biographies (5)

Claude McKay

385 words, approx. 2 pages

Claude McKay (1890-1948), Jamaican-born poet and novelist, is often called "the first voice of the Harlem renaissance." His verse and fiction are best known for protesting the social evils that plague... Read more

Festus Claudius McKay

649 words, approx. 3 pages

Once, on being asked his nationality, Claude McKay flippantly answered that he preferred to think of himself as an "internationalist." Though lightly given, the answer was not far off the mark. Born a... Read more

Festus Claudius McKay

1,357 words, approx. 5 pages

Claude McKay's poetry and his life display the presence of conflicting forces: his sense of identity as a black man and his desire to write out of a traditional literary heritage. While his poem "If W... Read more

Festus Claudius McKay

6,135 words, approx. 21 pages

Festus Claudius McKay was perhaps the most radical of the young black writers who came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Shaped by an attraction to genteel British culture, esp... Read more

Festus Claudius McKay

2,601 words, approx. 9 pages

What is generally termed the Harlem Renaissance, a decade of black self-awareness and racial pride, is frequently dated from the appearance in print of Claude McKay 's great sonnet "If We Must Die," ... Read more

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Claude Mckay

1,487 words, approx. 5 pages

Claude McKay Festus Claudius McKay, most commonly known as Claude McKay, was born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica. He was the youngest of eleven children. His parents were farmers who knew the importance ... Read more

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