Jennifer Wilson

Jennifer Wilson is a postdoctoral fellow for academic diversity at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written for The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The New Yorker.

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A Forgotten Novel Reveals a Forgotten Harlem

Discovered 70 years after it was written, Claude McKay’s Amiable With Big Teeth depicts an overlooked time in African American history when communism and black nationalism found themselves entangled.
- Jennifer Wilson
- March 9, 2017

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Jennifer Wilson

A Forgotten Novel Reveals a Forgotten Harlem