Harlem speaks
Subtitle: a living history of the Harlem Renaissance
By: edited by Cary D. Wintz.
Contributors: Wintz, Cary D., 1943-
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Naperville, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9781402204364
Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; African American authors -- Biography; African American musicians -- Biography; African American artists -- Biography; African American intellectuals -- Biography; Harlem Renaissance; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: Presents twenty-one essays that discuss the lives and accomplishments of important literary, musical, artistic, and political figures of the Harlem Renaissance, including Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-469) and index.
Table of contents: title: Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance; title: To make a poet black: literature of the Harlem Renaissance; title: The Jazz age: music and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance; title: Art and image in the Harlem Renaissance: the visual and performing arts; title: Art and politics: the Renaissance men of the Harlem Renaissance; title: The new Negro: politics and criticism in the Harlem Renaissance.