If you have lots of time to spare this can be very entertaining. If you hope to use any of this material in your research paper you must first carefully apply the kind of critical thinking discussed in Worksheet 4 and the handout from the library Evaluating Internet Information . The content for this site comes from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. It includes a wide variety of material including some full text sources. The Academy of American Poets has created a site titled Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After with features on some major poets.
Some full text appears here as well as images and sound.
Charmaine Watkiss has designed a site for the Institute of International Visual Arts titled Rhapsodies in Black . The website combines images and text to elaborate on some of the key themes in the exhibition. There are many more sites on the WWW, some valuable, many frivolous or amateurish, a few purposely misleading. Use your critical thinking skills in analyzing the content and ownership of these sites and don t hesitate to ask a librarian or your professor for guidance in assessing the worth of a questionable site. Duane Fenstermann provided HTML coding for the rest of the page.