| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Book Review

The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance. By Jeffrey B. Ferguson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xvi, 303 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-10901-6.)

Skeptical of much of the discourse surrounding the New Negro and critical of the strategies the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance used to challenge racism, George S. Schuyler occupies only a marginal position in many narratives of the movement. But according to Jeffrey B. Ferguson, we need to know more about Schuyler's work exactly because his iconoclastic ideas and writing techniques push us to recognize the diversity of viewpoints on race and culture during the Harlem Renaissance. In The Sage of Sugar Hill, Ferguson presents Schuyler "as a centrally important twentieth-century black intellectual and as an essentially liberating figure for his unique application of satire to the race question" (p. x).

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