num_pages: 656
description: Here's an eminently readable reference of African-American contributions to the arts, faithfully adapted from the original one-volume encyclopedia Africana . Essays on such influential black figures as the writer and activist Amiri Baraka; singers Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, and Lena Horne; painter Romare Bearden; filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, and poet Maya Angelou, as well as on black cultural events throughout modern history, create a rich resource of African-American arts and letters.
language: English
title: Africana: Arts and Letters: An A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians, and Artists of the African American Experience
titlecomplete: Africana: Arts and Letters: An A-to-Z Reference of Writers, Musicians, and Artists of the African American Experience
genres: History, Race, Reference, African American, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Running Press