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Part I. Essays and memoirs : --
Returning soldiers / W.E.B. Du Bois --
The migration of the talented Tenth / Carter G. Woodson --
Gift of the Black tropics / W.A. Domingo --
Africa for the Africans ; Liberty Hall Emancipation Day speech / Marcus Garvey --
On Marcus Garvey / Mary White Ovington --
from Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson --
The new Negro / Alain Locke --
Jazz at home / Joel A. Rogers --
Reflections on O'Neill's plays / Paul Robeson --
The Negro digs up his past / Arthur A. Schomburg --
The task of Negro womanhood / Elise Johnson McDougald --
from The big sea: When the Negro was in Vogue ; Harlem literati ; Parties ; The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes --
The Negro-art hokum / George S. Schuyler --
Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. Du Bois --
Critiques of Carl Van Vechten's Nigger heaven / dr Du Bois, J.W. Johnson --
The Caucasian storms Harlem / Rudolph Fisher --
Aaron Douglas chats about the Harlem Renaissance / Aaron Douglas --
Negro art and America / Albert C. Barnes --
The Negro takes his place in American art / Alain Locke --
The Negro artist and modern art / Romare Bearden --
from Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston --
from A long way from home : The Harlem intelligentsia ; The new Negro in Paris / Claude McKay --
La Bourgeoisie Noire / E. Franklin Frazier --
With Langston Hughes in the USSR / Louise Thompson Patterson --
Harlem runs wild / Claude McKay --
Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright --
The Negro Renaissance and its significance / Charles S. Johnson.
Part II. Poetry : --
Song ; Hatred / Gwendolyn Bennett --
The Day-breakers ; Golgotha is a mountain / Arna Bontemps --
Southern road ; Odyssey of Big Boy ; Frankie and Johnny ; Ma Rainey ; Long gone ; Georgie Grimes ; Remembering Nat Turner / Sterling Brown --
The young voice cries / Mae Cowdery --
The wayside well / Joseph S. Cotter --
For a lady I Know ; Incident ; Harlem Wine ; Yet Do I Marvel ; Heritage ; From the Dark Tower ; To a Brown Boy ; Tableau ; Saturday's Child ; Two Poets ; To France ; Nothing Endures ; Requiescam / Countee Cullen --
The death bed / Waring Cuney --
La vie c'est la vie ; Dead fires / Jessie Redmon Fauset --
The Negro speaks of rivers ; I, too ; America ; The weary blues ; Jazzonia ; Mother to son ; Negro ; Mulatto ; Elevator boy ; Red silk stockings ; Ruby Brown ; Elderly race leaders ; Dream variation ; Goodbye, Christ ; Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria / Langston Hughes --
Children of the sun ; The banjo player / Fenton Johnson --
Let me not lose my dream ; Old black men ; Black woman ; The heart of a woman ; I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
My race ; A southern road ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Poem / Helene Johnson --
The white witch ; The color sergeant ; O black and unknown bards ; Go down death ; The creation / James Weldon Johnson --
If we must die ; Baptism ; The White House ; The Negro's friend ; On a primitive canoe ; The tropics in New York ; When dawn comes to the city ; The desolate city ; The Harlem dancer ; St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd ; Barcelona / Claude McKay --
Lady, lady / Anne Spencer --
Song of the son ; Georgia dusk ; The blue meridian / Jean Toomer.
Part III. Fiction --
from The Emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill --
from Cane : Karintha ; Fern ; Bona and Paul / Jean Toomer --
from Birthright / T.S. Stribling --
from There is confusion ; from Plum bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset --
from The fire in the flint / Walter White --
Wedding day / Gwendolyn Bennett --
from Home to Harlem : Snowstorm in Pittsburgh ; Spring in Harlem ; from Banjo : Banjo's ace of spades ; from Banana bottom / Claude McKay --
from Quicksand ; from Passing / Nella Larsen --
from The closing door / Angelina Weld Grimké --
The typewriter / Dorothy West --
from The dark princess / W.E.B. Du Bois --
from The walls of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher --
from Tropic death : The wharf rats ; The yellow one / Eric Walrond --
Smoke, lillies and jade / Richard Bruce Nugent --
Luani of the jungles ; from Not without laughter : Thursday afternoon ; from The ways of white folks : Father and son ; The blues I'm playing / Langston Hughes --
Cordelia the crude ; Harlem : a forum of Negro life ; from The blacker the berry ; from Infants of the spring / Wallace Thurman --
from Black no more / George Schuyler --
from God sends Sunday ; from Black thunder / Arna Bontemps --
from One way to heaven / Countee Cullen --
Drenched in light ; Color struck ; from Jonah's gourd vine / Zora Neale Hurston --
from Mule-bone / Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes.
From the Book
Returning soldiers / W.E.B. Du Bois --
The migration of the talented tenth / Carter G. Woodson --
Gift of the Black tropics / W.A. Domingo --
Africa for the Africans ; Liberty Hall Emancipation Day speech / Marcus Garvey --
On Marcus Garvey / Mary White Ovington --
From Black Manhattan / James Weldon Johnson --
The new Negro / Alain Locke --
Jazz at home / Joel A. Rogers --
Reflections on O'Neill's plays / Paul Robeson --
The Negro digs up his past / Arthur A. Schomburg --
The task of Negro womanhood / Elise Johnson McDougald --
[Excerpts] From The big sea ; The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes --
The Negro-art hokum / George S. Schuyler --
Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. Du Bois --
Critiques of Carl Van Vechten's Nigger heaven / Du Bois and J.W. Johnson --
The Caucasian storms Harlem / Rudolph Fisher --
Aaron Douglas chats about the Harlem Renaissance / Aaron Douglas --
Negro art and America / Albert C. Barnes --
The Negro takes his place in American art / Alain Locke --
The Negro artist and modern art / Romare Bearden --
From Dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston --
[Excerpts] From A long way from home / Claude McKay --
La bourgeoisie noire / E. Franklin Frazier --
With Langston Hughes in the USSR / Louise Thompson Patterson --
Harlem runs wild / Claude McKay --
Blueprint for Negro writing / Richard Wright --
The Negro Renaissance and its significance / Charles S. Johnson --
Song ; Hatred / Gwendolyn Bennett --
The day-breakers ; Golgotha is a mountain / Arna Bontemps --
Southern road ; Osyssey of Big Boy ; Frankie and Johnny ; Ma Rainey ; Long gone ; Georgie Grimes ; Remembering Nat Turner / Sterling Brown --
The young voice cries / Mae Cowdery --
The wayside well / Joseph S. Cotter --
For a lady I know ; Incident ; Harlem wine ; Yet do I marvel ; Heritage ; From the dark tower ; To a brown boy ; Tableau ; Saturday's child ; Two poets ; To France ; Nothing endures ; Requiescam / Countee Cullen --
The death bed / Waring Cuney --
La vie c'est la vie ; Dead fires / Jessie Redmon Fauset --
The Negro speaks of rivers ; I, too ; America ; The weary blues ; Jazzonia ; Mother to son ; Negro ; Mulatto ; Elevator boy ; Red silk stockings ; Ruby Brown ; Elderly race leaders ; Dream variation ; Goodbye, Christ ; Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria / Langston Hughes --
Children of the sun ; The banjo player / Fenton Johnson --
Let me not lose my dream ; Old Black men ; Black woman ; The heart of a woman ; I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson --
My race ; A Southern road ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ; Poem / Helene Johnson --
The white witch ; The color sergeant ; O Black and unknown bards ; Go down death ; The creation / James Weldon Johnson --
If we must die ; Baptism ; The white house ; The Negro's friend ; On a primitive canoe ; The tropics in New York ; When dawn comes to the city ; The desolate city ; The Harlem dancer ; St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd ; Barcelona / Claude McKay --
Lady, Lady / Anne Spencer --
Song of the son ; Georgia dusk ; The blue meridian / Jean Toomer --
From The emperor Jones / Eugene O'Neill --
[Excerpts] From Cane / Jean Toomer --
From Birthright / T.S. Stribling --
From There is confusion ; From Plum bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset --
From The fire in the flint / Walter White --
Wedding day / Gwendolyn Bennett --
[Excerpts] From Home to Harlem ; From Banjo ; From Banana bottom / Claude McKay --
From Quicksand ; From Passing / Nella Larsen --
From The closing door / Angelina Weld Grimke --
The typewriter / Dorothy West --
From The dark princess / W.E.B. Du Bois --
From The walls of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher --
[Excerpts] From Tropic death / Eric Walrond --
Smoke, lillies and jade! / Richard Bruce Nugent --
Luani of the jungles ; From Not without laughter ; From The ways of white folks ; The blues I'm playing / Langston Hughes --
Cordelia the crude ; Harlem: a forum of Negro life ; From The blacker the berry ... ; From Infants of the spring / Wallace Thurman --
From Black no more / George Schuyler --
From God sends Sunday ; From Black thunder / Arna Bontemps --
From One way to heaven / Countee Cullen --
Drenched in light ; Color struck ; From Jonah's gourd vine / Zora Neale Hurston --
From Mule-bone / Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.
Subjects
Subjects
African American
African American authors
African Americans
African Americans -- Literary collections
American
American literature
American literature -- 20th century
American literature -- African American authors
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York
Essays
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Harlem Renaissance
Intellectual life
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- African American
Literature
Poetry
African American authors
African Americans
African Americans -- Literary collections
American
American literature
American literature -- 20th century
American literature -- African American authors
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York
Essays
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Harlem Renaissance
Intellectual life
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- African American
Literature
Poetry
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9780670845101
9780140170368
9780140170368
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