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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History)
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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History) (2003) (edit title/settings)

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In the decades of the 1920s and 1930s in Harlem, New York City, there developed a unique awakening of mind and spirit, of race conciousness and artistic advancement. This declaration of African-American independence became known as the Harlem Renaissance and this is a study of the era. In... read more

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The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war,... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war, racism, sexism, and political oppression of every kind, poets of the Harlem Renaissance shined a light of hope with the defiant brilliance of their songs, visual artists empowered their communities with the strength of visions that reinforced individual dignity, writers lent the power of their pens in service to the voices and lives of their people, and advocates for democracy stood their ground until justice was duly recognized and properly served.

In this, the world’s first Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, we do something more than witness the triumphs and tragedies of poets such as Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, novelists like Ralph Ellison and Zora Neale Hurston, musicians like Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, and performance artists such as Lena Horne and Paul Robeson. Through their challenges and victories, we are encouraged to identify and claim our own challenges and victories. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance takes us inside the clubs, theatres, and relationships that made Harlem, New York City, the one-time “Party Capital of the World,” and one of the greatest cultural centers of any era. It also places on bold display the genius that gave the world ragtime, Jazz, the blues, gospel, swing, and all night dancing. Whereas previously we thought of the Harlem Renaissance primarily as the literary achievement of a handful of writers, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance demonstrates that it was a triumphant exultation of creative genius across the cultural board and one that spread both nationally and internationally. Moreover, through leaders such as James Weldon Johnson, A. Philip Randolph, and W. E. B. Du Bois, it laid the foundation for what would grow into the extraordinary Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This is the kind of book one is happy to share with another but even happier to give as a gift while keeping one’s own.

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"Our interest in the flourishing of black artistic talent, racial chauvisnism, and group expressiveness known as the Harlem Renaissance is both durable and understandable."--Clement Alexander Price

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List of Entries vi
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword: Race, Blackness, and Modernism during the Harlem Renaisance xi
Author's Note xv

Introduction: Black Phoenix Rising xviii

A TO Z ENTRIES 1

APPENDIX A: Glossary of Harlem Renaissance Slang 375

APPENDIX B: MAPS 383

APPENDIX C: Museums and Centers that Feature Works from the Harlem Renaissance

Chronology 396

Further Reading 402

Entries by Topic 406

Index 410

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  1. Aberjhani (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Sandra L. West (Author)
  2. Clement Alexander Price (Foreword)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Facts on File
Country: United States
Publication Date: September 2003
ISBN: 0816045399
Page Count: 424

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  • Library of Congress: 2002152067
  • Dewey: 810.989607307471009042

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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • The American Poet Who Went Home Again
  • The Harlem Renaissance Way Down South

Books That Influenced This Book edit see section history

   
  • Terrible Honesty
  • W. E. B. Du Bois
  • W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Black Manhattan
  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
  • God's Trombones
  • James Weldon Johnson: Writings
  • The Langston Hughes Reader
  • The Big Sea
  • I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
  • Selections.
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
  • Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
  • Home to Harlem
  • Harlem Shadows: The Poems Of Claude Mckay (1922)
  • The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans (The New Marcus Garvey Library, No. 9)
  • Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
  • New Negro
  • Survey Graphic the March 1925 Number Harlem Mecca of the New Negro
  • American Negro Poetry: An Anthology (American Century)
  • God Sends Sunday: A Novel
  • Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800
  • The Several Lives of Chester Himes
  • From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980

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