Home to Harlem - Mckay, Claude
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Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown is determined to find a place that he can call home and feel at ease with himself. Making his way to New York, he sets out into the electric unpredictable night, emerging into Harlem a common Black man content in his lower-class life.

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Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown is determined to find a place that he can call home and feel at ease with himself. Making his way to New York, he sets out into the electric unpredictable night, emerging into Harlem a common Black man content in his lower-class life.
Autorenporträt
Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a Jamaican poet and novelist. Born in Sunny Ville, Jamaica, McKay was raised in a strict Baptist family alongside seven siblings. Sent to live with his brother Theo, a journalist, at the age of nine, McKay excelled in school while reading poetry in his free time. In 1912, he published his debut collection Songs of Jamaica, the first poems written in Jamaican Patois to appear in print. That same year, he moved to the United States to attend the Tuskegee Institute, though he eventually transferred to Kansas State University. Upon his arrival in the South, he was shocked by the racism and segregation experienced by Black Americans, which-combined with his reading of W. E. B. Du Bois' work-inspired him to write political poems and to explore the principles of socialism. He moved to New York in 1914 without completing his degree, turning his efforts to publishing poems in The Seven Arts and later The Liberator, where he would serve as co-executive editor from 1919 to 1922. Over the next decade, he would devote himself to communism and black radicalism, joining the Industrial Workers of the World, opposing the efforts of Marcus Garvey and the NAACP, and travelling to Britain and Russia to meet with communists and write articles for various leftist publications. McKay, a bisexual man, was also a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, penning Harlem Shadows (1922), a successful collection of poems, and Home to Harlem (1928), an award-winning novel exploring Harlem's legendary nightlife.