Title: Harlem renaissance /
Authors: Huggins, Nathan Irvin, 1927-1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1973
Subjects: African American arts New York (State) New York.; Arts, Modern New York (State) New York.; Harlem Renaissance; Arts, Modern
Abstract: A convincing historical assessment of the period, roughly the 1920's, when a considerable flowering of literary and other arts occurred among black Americans. It does not shy away from encompassing and attempting to explain the often contradictory aspects of the Black psyche and behavior.
Contents: Harlem: capital of the Black world -- New negro -- Heart of darkness -- Art: the Black identity -- Art: the ethnic province -- White/Black faces, Black masks.