Marcus Garvey is important for African and African-American history; he did not have the same narrow-mindedness and parochialism as those who advocate Jamaican nationalism and his work had absolutely nothing to do with Jamaica. Claude McKay was a figure who played a major role in the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s and 30s. Interestingly enough, Claude McKay was also a practicing homosexual who was rejected as a "battyboy" by Jamaican society and culture. Although of Jamaican birth, neither of these men had anything to do with Jamaica and carried out all of their work on foreign soil. It is a well-known fact that Jamaica has never produced any pan-African/black pride/black nationalist/black civil rights movements of any importance; neither has it produced any writers or artists of note, who both lived and worked in Jamaica, that explored the politics of the black experience in depth. To call Jamaica a world leader in black identity is an overexaggeration to say the least, as most Jamaicans see themselves through the lense of white culture.