Originally published: Houston : Rice University Press, 1988.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-267) and index.
Contents
The social and political background -- Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and the "New Negro" in black America -- Literary roots -- The emergence of the renaissance in black literature -- Black Bohemia: when the Negro was in vogue -- The black intelligentsia: promoters -- The black intelligentsia: critics -- Black writers and white promoters -- Black literature and politics -- The decline of the Harlem Renaissance
