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    A Study Guide for Claude McKay's "The White City"
    A Study Guide for Claude McKay's "The White City"
    A Study Guide for Claude McKay's "The White City"
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    A Study Guide for Claude McKay's "The White City"

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    A Study Guide for Claude McKay's "The White City," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 28, 2016
    ISBN9781535840491
    A Study Guide for Claude McKay's "The White City"

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      A Study Guide for Claude McKay's "The White City" - Gale

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      The White City

      Claude McKay

      1921

      Introduction

      The White City, by Claude McKay, is a sonnet that reflects the growing racial tension and spreading violence that the United States experienced after the end of World War I. This poem was a form of political protest, and it openly explores themes of racism, hatred, and isolation. Readers from different social and cultural back-grounds praised McKay's protest sonnets, including The White City, making him a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. First published in the Liberator in October 1921, the poem is now available in Complete Poems: Claude McKay, published in 2004.

      Author Biography

      McKay was born in the village of Sunny Ville in Jamaica on September 15, 1890. When McKay was eight, he went to live with his brother Uriah. As a teacher, Uriah made his brother's education a priority, exposing him to English literature and philosophy that shaped his career.

      In 1911, McKay joined the constabulary (police force) in Spanish Town, Jamaica, where he observed racial inequality. According to Tyrone Tillery in Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity, McKay was pained by the daily injustices he witnessed, and he abandoned the position a year later. During this time, his mentor, Walter Jekyll, encouraged him to write poetry in Jamaican dialect. These poems were collected and published in the volumes Songs of Jamaica in 1911 and Constable Ballads in

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