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Claude McKay
CaribbeanDiasporaHarlem RenaissanceFictionPoetry
Home to Harlem
1928Claude McKay
Jake, a Black soldier returning from WWI to Harlem, navigates the vibrant nightlife and working-class life.
DiasporaFiction
Banjo
1929Claude McKay
Black men from across the diaspora gather in Marseilles, exploring pan-African identity and Black internationalism.
DiasporaFiction
Harlem Shadows
1922Claude McKay
Poetry collection including militant sonnet 'If We Must Die' written after Red Summer of 1919.
DiasporaPoetry
Banana Bottom
1933Claude McKay
Bita Plant, a Jamaican girl educated in England by missionary patrons, returns to Jamaica and must choose between the Western values she was trained in and her own people. McKay's finest novel.
CaribbeanFiction