Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem
February 9, 2025 · ArticlesOne of the most striking things about Home to Harlem is that no one seems to be at home in Harlem. Not Jake, the novel’s main character, a Virginia‑born African American migrant to New York; not Ray, his friend, an educated Black Haitian immigrant; and not its itinerant Black residents, whose precarious lives seem to