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The Spirit of America

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

British writer Caryl Phillips presents six interviews in which he explores key moments in American history with six prominent African Americans.
2: The Harlem Renaissance. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis explores how a debate that emerged in New York between 1919 and the early 1930s in novels and poetry offers an understanding of a division in African-American society that continues to this day. Producer Tony Phillips

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Caryl Phillips
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David Levering
Producer:
Tony Phillips
Source: Radio Times

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