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This book is the first to focus a bright light on the life and early career of George S. Schuyler, one of the most important intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. A popular journalist in black America, Schuyler wielded a sharp, double-edged wit to attack the foibles of both blacks and whites throughout the 1920s. Jeffrey B. Ferguson presents a new understanding of Schuyler as public intellectual while also offering insights into the relations between race and satire during a formative period of African-American cultural history.Ferguson discusses Schuyler's controversial career and reputation and examines the paradoxical ideas at the center of his message. The author also addresses Schuyler's drift toward the political right in his later years and how this has affected his legacy.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Intellectual life --- 20th century --- African Americans --- Novelists [American ] --- Biography --- Journalists --- United States --- African American journalists --- African American novelists --- Novelists, American --- Conservatives --- African American conservatives --- Harlem Renaissance. --- Schuyler, George S. --- Persons --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- American literature --- Conservative African Americans --- African American authors --- Schuyler, George Samuel,

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"Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm-changing book The Sage of Sugar Hill. Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of "race melodrama" through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Fergusons final work is brought together here in Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Ferguson asks, what would thinking about "race relations" be like if George Schuylers relentless questioning was heeded? How could the "bifurcating effects" of racial melodrama, the common, popular, and well-intentioned forms of sentimental heroicization and victimization be avoided in literary and in scholarly narratives? Ferguson goes deeper than any other literary and cultural critic in teasing out the ironies that have surrounded notions of race and racial cultural production in America. One further irony is that in order to highlight some of the current blind spots, he draws on classic American studies concepts and texts, including Ralph Waldo Emersons distinction between the party of memory and the party of hope, Alexis de Tocquevilles notions of American democracy and the races of America, Lionel Trillings distinction between sincerity and authenticity, and Edmund Morgans demonstration of the interconnectedness of American slavery and freedom. Elegant, memorable, and aphoristically written, these essays convey to the reader Fergusons sense of humor, warmth, and grace, while they add up to a serious and principled critique of much common scholarly and pedagogic practice"--

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