| Description |
xliv, 619 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 611-613) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Essays. The New negro / Alain Locke -- New negro-- what is he? / A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen -- Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite -- Closed doors : a study in segregation / Ruth Whitehead Whaley -- Harlem : the culture capital / James Weldon Johnson -- Point of view : an Opportunity dinner reaction / Brenda Ray Moryck -- Negro-art hokum / George S. Schuyler -- Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes -- On Langston Hughes : I am a negro-- and beautiful / Amy Jacques Garvey -- Criteria of negro art / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Blueprint for negro writing / Richard Wright -- Characteristics of negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Africa for the Africans / Marcus Garvey -- Gift of the black tropics / W. A. Domingo -- Caucasian storms Harlem / Rudolph Fisher -- Task of negro womanhood / Elise Johnson McDougald -- On being young-- a woman-- and colored / Marita O. Bonner -- Woman's most serious problem / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Problems facing negro young women / Marion Vera Cuthbert -- Legacy of the ancestral arts / Alain Locke -- Jazz at home / Joel A. Rogers -- American negro paints / Gwendolyn B. Bennett. |
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Creative Writing. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) -- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) -- Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) -- Anne Spencer (1882-1975) -- Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) -- Effie Lee Newsome (a k a Mary Effie Lee) (1885-1979) -- John F. Matheus (1887-1983) -- Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) -- Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- Willis Richardson (1889-1977) -- Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Nella Larsen (1891-1964) -- Eulalie Spence (1894-1981) -- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. (1895-1919) -- Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) -- Eric Walrond (1898-1966) -- May Miller (1899-1995) -- Marita O. Bonner (1899-1971) -- Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981) -- Wallace Thurman (1902-1934) -- Arna Bontemps (1902-1973) -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- Gladys May Casely Hayford (a k a Aquah Laluah) (1904-1950) -- (William) Waring Cuney (1906-1976) -- Richard Bruce Nugent (a k a Richard Bruce) (1906-1987) -- Dorothy West (1907-1998) -- Helene Johnson (1907-1995) -- Mae V. Cowdery (1909-1953). |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Literary collections
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American literature -- 20th century.
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African American arts.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Patton, Venetria K., 1968-
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Honey, Maureen, 1945-
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| ISBN |
0813529301 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0813529298 (alk. paper) |
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