Soon to be released as a major documentary produced by Spike Lee, this autobiography explores Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's personal journey to become the man he is today--a basketball superstar, jazz enthusiast, historian, and African-American icon. of photos.
During the days of the Harlem Renaissance, a civil rights lawyer who works in the South returns to New York when his sister is killed. He becomes involved in a complex series of events involving not only his sister and her shady husband, but his old girlfriend from high school who confronts him with a shattering revelation.
In the 1920s, Harlem was "the capital of Black America" and home to an epochal African-American cultural flowering called the Harlem Renaissance. This book presents the work of the most important visual artists of the day, including Meta Warrick Fuller, Aaron Douglas and Palmer Hayden.
Poet Langston Hughes met the critic Carl Van Vechten at a party in 1924. Shortly thereafter Van Vechten introduced Hughes's poems to Alfred Knopf, who published THE WEARY BLUES, a favor that was the beginning of a lasting friendship between Hughes and Van Vechten. This volume of letters offers insight about their relationship, and, with reference ...
Harlem has captivated the imagination of writers, artists, intellectuals, and politicians around the world since the early decades of this century. "Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance" examines the cultural reawakening of Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s as a key moment in twentieth-century art history, one that transcended regional ...
A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, ...
Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In "The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising ...
Summer, 1925. Harlem is hot, humming, and full of possibilities for sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis - as long as he can weasel out of working at his uncle's funeral parlor. Mark takes a job downtown at the Crisis publishing office.
The Harlem Renaissance was an unprecedented period of vitality in the American Arts. Defined as the years between 1910 and 1927, it was the time when Harlem came alive with theatre, drama, sports, dance and politics. Looking at events as diverse as the prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jim "White Hope" Jeffries, the choreography of Aida Walker ...
A remarkable and much-needed collection for the youngest lovers of poetry, "Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance" features poems from the leaders of this cultural movement (1917-1935), such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson, as well as many newly discovered writers. These celebratory, ...
While trying to find a topic for her school assignment, Keisha visits Ellie's attic and discovers the excitement of the music and writing that flourished among African Americans in Harlem during the 1920s.
Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic, and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era, combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced "New Negro" militants, including A. Philip ...
Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere's most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891 - 1964) lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations - only to be rediscovered and hailed by many ...
For the first time in more than two decades, the very best of Countee Cullen's poetry & prose is available in one collection. "My Soul's High Song" is a generous introduction to new readers of Countee Cullen & a more than generous offering to those of us who hold the poet dear." -Maya Angelou
An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black and ...
- A comprehensive view of the major literary movements in Western history - An introduction by Harold Bloom and a selection of critical essays provides scholarly analysis on the major writers and works that defined each literary period - Features a chronology of important cultural, literary, and political events that helped shape each literary ...
The first volume in a series devoted to the founders and founding ideas of modernism. Steven Watson vividly evokes the intellectual, artistic, and social ferment of Harlem in the 1920s in a extensively illustrated book that brings together the writers and artists who made up a movement within this legendary neighborhood.
This anthology, which includes novels (among them HOME TO HARLEM, CANE, and QUICKSAND) and short stories (by Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and others), provides a varied introduction to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.
Artist, E.B. Lewis acts as interpreter and visionary, using watercolor to pay tribute to Langston Hughes's timeless poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," a poem that every child deserves to know.
Covering important figures throughout the ages, these lively books are filled with engaging text based on primary sources and thorough research. The full-color images, historical photos and paintings, and detailed maps add to chronicling the lives of Langston Hughes and William Shakespeare.
"Kellner's dictionary is by far the most comprehensive single reference source covering the many facets of one of the richest periods in recent American literary and artistic history. The author's informative introduction gives perspective to the period covered and the concluding 16-page bibliography is indispensable for collection managers. ...
During the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their history. In so doing, they set the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance and gave form to some of its most compelling visions. This innovative study ...
In his poetry and fiction, as well as in his political and social commentaries, McKay searched for a solid foundation for a valid black identity among the working-class cultures of the West Indies and the United States.
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