Gabriel Prosser s 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at the same time a highly pertinent representation of black masculinity that will reward students of gender s... Lees meer.

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In his youth a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s Arna Wendell Bontemps matured into a renaissance man in the broadest sense a person fully engaged in the life of the intellect. He contributed vastly to the culture of his era through his own writi... Lees meer.