Books of African American arts

  • Visions of a Liberated Future: Black Arts Movement Writings
    By Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka

    A collection of works by Neal, who was a leader in the Black Arts Movement during the 1960s and 1970s.

  • Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism
    By Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Communication Studies Michael Eric Dyson

    From rap music to preaching, from Toni Morrison to Leonard Jeffries, from Michael Jackson to Michael Jordan, Reflecting Black explores as never before the varied and complex dimensions of African-American culture through personal reflection ...

  • Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: A-J
    By Paul Finkelman, Cary D. Wintz

    Anderson was married in 1943 to the artist and architect Orpheus H. “ King ” Fisher . ... Raimund von zur Mühlen , Mark Raphael , Amanda Ira Aldrich , Michael Raucheisen , Sverre Jordan , Madame Charles Cahier , and Steffi Rupp .

  • Women of the Harlem Renaissance
    By Lisa Beringer McKissack

    Concise, easy-to-read introductions to various topics in U.S. history use primary documents and photography, as well as timelines, maps, and other tools, to teach important facts about our past.

  • Black Culture in Bloom: The Harlem Renaissance
    By Richard Worth

    Black Culture in Bloom: The Harlem Renaissance

  • Negro Anthology
    By Nancy Cunard

    Negro Anthology

  • Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
    By Paul Finkelman, Cary D. Wintz

    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...

  • African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks
    By Eileen Southern, Josephine Wright

    of Negro folk tales " a few years ago " in the Riverside Magazine and Harper's Monthly . Observation that the dialect in the ... 6. The conquest of a hag . 7. Brer Rabbit tries to get even with Brer Rooster . 8. Why some men are black .

  • From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity
    By Albert Murray

    The renowned novelist, essayist, poet, and literary and social critic presents a collection of scholarly and provocative essays, reviews, and interviews that examine contemporary America, including his own beginnings as a writer, the ...

  • Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism
    By Michael Eric Dyson

    For much of its history, American sports activity has reflected white patriarchal privilege, and it has been rigidly defined and socially shaped by rules that restricted the equitable participation of women and people of color. Black ...

  • The Harlem Renaissance
    By Dana Meachen Rau

    Discusses the creation of the Harlem Renaissance, the African Americans in the spotlight there, and the legacy of future generations long after its heyday.

  • African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance
    By Tony Martin

    Black Studies / Literature / Intellectual History African Fundamentalism A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance ... X Of Related Interest : Literary Garveyism : Garvey , Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance ...

  • The Harlem Renaissance: Profiles in Creativity
    By Cheryl Willis Hudson

    Presents biographies of six African Americans prominent in the arts and business worlds during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance--Bessie Smith, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, A'lelia Walker, Augusta Fells Savage, and Arturo ...

  • History and Memory in African-American Culture
    By Robert G. O'Meally, Geneviève Fabre

    Through a team of leading scholars, this volume offers a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which an African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in books, art, performance, and oral documents.

  • African American Almanac: Culture
    By Jay P. Pederson

    ... were not struck so bluntly Renaissance Remembered with the grim realities presented by African American writers . ... classical and mythical the literary establishment and were being taught in English classes around the country .

  • Configuring History: Teaching the Harlem Renaissance Through Virtual Reality Cityscapes
    By Bryan Carter, James J. Sosnoski, Patricia Harkin

    The multidisciplinary essays in Configuring History describe how teachers can use virtual reality technology to teach the Harlem Renaissance.

  • The Harlem Renaissance
    By Dana Meachen Rau

    Discusses the creation of the Harlem Renaissance, the African Americans in the spotlight there, and the legacy of future generations long after its heyday.

  • Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Volume 1 A-J
    By Paul Finkelman, Cary D. Wintz

    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.

  • Remembering the Harlem Renaissance
    By Cary D. Wintz

    First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • African American Almanac: Society
    By Kenneth Estell, Jay P. Pederson

    African American Almanac features historical and current information on African American life and culture. Biography profiles hundreds of notable African Americans.