Hannah and Michael travel back to early 20th-century New York and learn about two so-called “forgotten women” of the Harlem Renaissance. This one’s a remedial education!  

Books Mentioned: Passing, Nella Larsen; Plum Bun, Jessie Redmon Fauset; The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson; Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston; The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett; Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, James Weldon Johnson; Black No More, George Schuyler. 

Other Podcasts on the HR:

• 15 Minute History
• History of Color

On Nella Larsen:

• Nella Larsen Wrestled With Race and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
• ON WRITERS AND WRITING; Authentic American
• Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race
• George Hutchinson's Biography

On Jessie Redmon Fauset

• The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset
• https://jessiefauset-blog.tumblr.com
• About Jessie Redmon Fauset | Academy of American Poets
• The Story of Jessie Redmon Fauset
• Jessie R. Fauset (1882-1961) •

Audio featured in this episode:

• Duke Ellington, “Take the A Train”
• Ma Rainey, “Ma and Pa Poorhouse Blues”
• Marcus Garvey in 1921
• Bessie Smith, “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”

Citation from George Hutchinson from intro to this volume: Hutchinson, G. (Ed.). (2007). The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Gradisek and Scott article: Gradisek, Amanda, and Ron Scott. "Reconceiving and Redeeming the Self: Passing, the Harlem Renaissance, and Zombies." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 17, no. 2, 2017. 

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