The Harlem Renaissance
By: by Dolores Johnson with Virginia Schomp.
Contributors: Schomp, Virginia.
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780761426417
Subjects: African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Harlem Renaissance -- Juvenile literature; African American arts -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Juvenile literature; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Description: "Covers a period of great creativity in the African-American community, when art, literature, music, and political commentary flourished; centered in Harlem, the era reached its peak in the 1920s and early 1930s"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Roots of the Harlem Renaissance; title: A new identity; title: The music of the Renaissance; title: Finding a voice; title: The art of Black America; title: The end of an era.