Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern Americas truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nations culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new.
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