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USA
Harlem Renaissance
English
Fiction
Three Black families in Philadelphia and New York navigate ambition, love, and racial identity in the early 20th century. Fauset, literary editor of The Crisis, was the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance.
Literary Significance
Fauset published more Harlem Renaissance writers than anyone else as editor of The Crisis; her own fiction deserves equal recognition
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editorial-summarynot primary textThree Black families in Philadelphia and New York navigate ambition, love, and racial identity in the early 20th century. Fauset, literary editor of The Crisis, was the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance. Fauset published more Harlem Renaissance writers than anyone else as editor of The Crisis; her own fiction deserves equal recognition
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