An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places.
Contains approximately 370 alphabetically arranged entries covering the emergence of new ideas in literature, political thought, civil rights, racial pride, and the arts during New York City's Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s.
This two-volume encyclopedia provides a comprehensive exploration of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of heightened racial consciousness and artistic production, highlighting artists, historical figures, and writers while providing crucial ...
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the Harlem literary renaissance of the early-twentieth century.
An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual, and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places.
An alphabetical guide to the major writers, works, organizations, and locations associated with the African-American artistic movement of the 1920s, including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and the NAACP.
The volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.
African American women writers published extensively during the Harlem Renaissance and have been extraordinarily prolific since the 1970s. This book surveys the world of African American women writers. Included are...
eccentric and difficult; the model Beverly Johnson later said, “[Luna] doesn't wear shoes winter or summer. Ask her where she's from—Mars? She went up and down the runways on her hands and knees. She didn't show up for bookings.
Stern, Robert A.M., Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999. ———, Gregory Gilmartin, and John Montague Massengale. New York 1900: Metropolitan ...
Langston Hughes remains a giant in the world of American poetry . Countee Cullen and Claude McKay are also well known and widely read . Claude McKay was born in Jamaica , but later moved to Harlem . His poems captured the spirit of the ...