For 10 points, name this author of Home to Harlem and Banana Bottom, a Jamaica-born Harlem Renaissance author.
The introduction to this man's collected poems praises him for expressing hatred while being "clean" and "neither mean nor spiteful." That introduction laments "no white man can do more than express his humiliated sympathy" and was written by the philosopher John Dewey. This poet of "George William Gordon to the Oppressed Natives" wrote a sonnet on race riots which proclaims "like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack" and says that the title action will not be performed "like hogs," entitled "If We Must Die." Ray and Latnah are among the ocean-loving denizens of The Ditch who welcome Lincoln Agrippa Daily to Marseilles in one novel by this author. In another of his novels, the prostitute Felice refuses payment and Congo Rose enjoys being slapped, leading Jake Brown to choose life with the former. This author of Banjo also wrote about the goat rapist Harold Newton Day and the Christian convert Hopping Dick Delgado, both of whom are passed over in favor of the laborer Juban by Tabitha Plant. For 10 points, name this author of Home to Harlem and Banana Bottom, a Jamaica-born Harlem Renaissance author.
The introduction to this man's collected poems praises him for expressing hatred while being "clean" and "neither mean nor spiteful.
Claude McKay