Home to HarlemBy: Claude McKay Claude McKays most well known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKays first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a Southern born African American longshoreman who deserts the U. S. army and returns to his home in Harlem; and Ray, an educated Haitian immigrant. With