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1	On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance more books like this by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Harlem Redux more books like this by Persia Walker add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.51! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Harlem Renaissance more books like this by Nathan Irwin Huggins add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.44! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America more books like this by Mary V Campbell, David Levering Lewis (Photographer) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $2.55! new only from $12.50! \| first editions
5	The big sea : an autobiography more books like this by Langston Hughes add to wishlist A prose description of portions of Hughes's life and travels, published in 1940. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 more books like this by Emily Bernard (Editor), Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
7	Rhapsodies in Black more books like this by Richard Powell, Professor Paul Gilroy, David A Bailey add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $8.99! new only from $39.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Big Sea more books like this by Langston Hughes add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $67.67! \| first editions
9	The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance more books like this by Daphne Muse, Charlotte Riley Webb (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Keisha Discovers Harlem more books like this by Zoe Lewis, Dan Burr (Illustrator), Rich Grote (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99!
11 view cover	Walls of Jericho more books like this by Rudolph Fisher add to wishlist The first novel by one of the legends of the Harlem Renaissance see all copies from $2.53! new only from $25.39! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line more books like this by George Hutchinson add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $18.65! new only from $34.50! \| first editions
13 view cover	Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 more books like this by Jeffrey Babcock Perry add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $22.90! new only from $37.50! \| SVS
14 view cover	My Soul's High Song more books like this by Countee Cullen, Gerald Early (Editor) add to wishlist 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 see all copies from $15.00! first editions
15 view cover	Gentleman Jigger more books like this by Richard Bruce Nugent, Thomas H Wirth (Editor), Professor Arnold Rampersad (Foreword by) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
16 view cover	Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950 more books like this by Dorothy West, Verner D Mitchell (Editor), Cynthia Davis (Editor) add to wishlist Despite her strong associations with Massachusetts - her upbringing in Roxbury, her lifelong connection with Martha's Vineyard, and two novels documenting the Great Migration and the rise and decline of Boston's African American community - Dorothy West (1907-1998) is perhaps best known as a member of the Harlem Renaissance. Between 1927 and 1947, ... see all copies from $5.98! new only from $45.53!
17 view cover	A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 more books like this by David Krasner add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Harlem Renaissance more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist - 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.32! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Harlem Summer more books like this by Walter Dean Myers add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance more books like this by William L Andrews (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.56! new only from $38.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 more books like this by Steven Watson add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Negro Speaks of Rivers more books like this by Langston Hughes, E B Lewis (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $5.50! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance more books like this by Maureen Honey (Editor) add to wishlist The first edition of "Shadowed Dreams" was a groundbreaking anthology that brought to light the contributions of women poets to the Harlem Renaissance. This revised and expanded version contains twice the number of poems found in the original, many of them never before reprinted, and adds eighteen new voices to the collection to once again strike ... see all copies from $5.27! new only from $21.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Picturing the New Negro: Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity more books like this by Caroline Goeser add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $34.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	Rebirth of a People more books like this by Sean Price add to wishlist Crucial eras and events in American history are brought to life through primary resources in this high interest series written especially for less able readers. The personal struggles of the people making history guide the reader through each book. Background knowledge of the subject matter is incorporated into the text and vocabulary is defined ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $6.52! \| SVS

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