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There Is Confusion

Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Region

Diaspora

USA

Era

Harlem Renaissance

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

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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.

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Fauset published more Harlem Renaissance writers than anyone else as editor of The Crisis; her own fiction deserves equal recognition

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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. Fauset published more Harlem Renaissance writers than anyone else as editor of The Crisis; her own fiction deserves equal recognition

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