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'For A Few Days We Would Be Residents In Africa": Jessie Redmon Fausct's "Dark Algiers The White'', Claire Garcia
'For A Few Days We Would Be Residents In Africa": Jessie Redmon Fausct's "Dark Algiers The White'', Claire Garcia
Ethnic Studies Review
American scholarship on the Harlem Renaissance has, until recently, been strongly U.S.-centric, but the work of many of the important writers of the New Negro-era has an international dimension, as writers attempted to place the African American struggle for political and civil rights and cultural authority in larger, often global, contexts. Recent scholarship has revealed that the term, "Harlem Renaissance," used as a rubric to characterize the flowering of black culture-building and political activism in the first years of the 20th century is something of a misnomer.