The sage of Sugar Hill
Subtitle: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance
By: Jeffrey B. Ferguson.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Schuyler, George Samuel, 1895-; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Conservatives -- United States -- Biography.; Journalists -- United States -- Biography.; African American journalists -- Biography.; African American novelists -- Biography.; Harlem Renaissance.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: This is a focus on the life and early career of George Schuyler one of the important intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. The text presents an understanding of Schuyler as public intellectual while offering insights into the relations between race and satire during a formative period in African-American cultural history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of George S. Schuyler; title: The ten commandments; title: The right to laugh; title: Debunking Blackness; title: The rising tide of color; title: The Black Mencken; title: Hokum and beyond; title: Black no more.