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Which Harlem Renaissance book is often considered the movement’s final work?
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Harlem Renaissance
Dust jacket designed by the Mexican illustrator and writer Miguel Covarrubias for Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues (1926), a book of experimental poetry.
The debut novel by Arna Bontemps, God Sends Sunday (1931), is generally considered the final work of the Harlem Renaissance.12