The Portable Harlem Renaissance reader
The Portable Harlem Renaissance reader
- New York : Viking, 1994.
- xlvii, 766 pages ; 21 cm
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.
The best literature that emerged from a flowering of African American culture centered in Harlem between the world wars.
0670845108 9780670845101
93030233
1900-1999
American literature--African American authors.
American literature--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Literary collections.
American literature--20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Harlem Renaissance.
Intellectual life.
Harlem renaissance.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
New York (State)--New York.
New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
Literary collections.
PS508.N3 / P59 1994
810.8/089073
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.
The best literature that emerged from a flowering of African American culture centered in Harlem between the world wars.
0670845108 9780670845101
93030233
1900-1999
American literature--African American authors.
American literature--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Literary collections.
American literature--20th century.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Harlem Renaissance.
Intellectual life.
Harlem renaissance.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
New York (State)--New York.
New York (State)--New York--Harlem.
Literary collections.
PS508.N3 / P59 1994
810.8/089073