The Other Harlem Renaissance: Father Divine, Celibate Economics, and the Making of Black Sexuality

While many of these texts are set during the Harlem Renaissance or are authored by writers associated with the period, most of these texts - even by the most expansive periodizations - were not written during the Renaissance. Since Divine did not become a sensation until December 1931 when his Rockl...

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Published inThe Arizona quarterly Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 37 - 61
Main Author Kahan, Benjamin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tucson Johns Hopkins University Press 01.12.2009
Subjects
Influence
Larsen, Nella
Lorde, Audre
Louis, Joe (1914-1981)
Lynchings
Marshall, Paule (1929-2019)
McKay, Claude (1890-1948)
Nottage, Lynn
Peace
Perceptions
Presidential elections
Sexuality
Violence
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Summary:While many of these texts are set during the Harlem Renaissance or are authored by writers associated with the period, most of these texts - even by the most expansive periodizations - were not written during the Renaissance. Since Divine did not become a sensation until December 1931 when his Rockland Palace lectures continually drew authences of more than ten thousand, those versions of the Renaissance ending with the 1929 stock market crash like Houston Baker's Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987) and Cary Wintz's Black CuIture and the Hariem Renaissance (1988) would understandably exclude Divine (Watts 82-86). [...] yet, many periodizations of the Renaissance end with prohibition, the Harlem riot of 1935, or later in the 1940s.\n While it was not illegal in New York and Pennsylvania, the two states in which Divine spent most of his life, he frequently faced mob violence (Watts 80, 107; Wienbrot no).
ISSN:0004-1610
1558-9595
1558-9595
DOI:10.1353/arq.0.0049