Claude McKay (1890–1948) was a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance and a major figure in Black transnational, Black queer, and Black Marxist history. His books include the poetry collection Harlem Shadows and the novels Home to Harlem and Banjo and the posthumously published Amiable with Big Teeth and Romance in Marseille. Brooks E. Hefner is professor of English at James Madison University. He is the author of The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism and Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow. He lives in Charlottesville, VA. Gary Edward Holcomb is professor of African American literature at Ohio University. He is the author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance and coeditor of McKay’s Romance in Marseille. He lives in Athens, OH.