Home to Harlem Like That: Living life without

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With humor and honesty

An elemental part of Chinese culture

and anger and gives them context that young readers can connect with

From his childhood in the segregated South to his final fight with Parkinson's disease

Home to Harlem Like That: Living life withoutClaude McKays first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern born African American longshoreman who deserts the U. S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and Ray, an educated Haitian immigrant. With his innovative use of Black dialects, McKay portrays a complex world of Black people, both native born and