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Beautifully photographed, with insightful analysis in terms of both traditional and contemporary contexts, An American Renaissance is a significant...

Edited by the first African American Rhodes Scholar, this landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration is widely r...

The Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937) was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. Its key figures include W. E. B. ...

The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subseque...

Reducere. Recovers Coleman's life and literary legacyOne of the most distinctive and prolific writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Anita Scott Coleman (1890-19...

Reducere. "One Last Word is the work of a master poet." - Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The CrossoverFrom the New York Times bestselling a...

A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital role in shaping an imag...

Reducere. A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative, " Nathan Huggins' Harlem Ren...

An exploration of food images in European and American painting from the early Renaissance to the present. It underlines the central importance of ...

Reducere. Learn the secrets of what is really happening beyond the material realm in this complex society manipulated by the occult forces of St. Ignatius, a...

Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of race melodrama through the lens of which so much American racial and cultural his...

This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book...

A rhythmic tale introduces the work and world of Langston Hughes, who was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and an American cultural hero....

Reducere. A powerful biography in poems​ about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance--with an afterword by the curator of the Schombur...

Reducere. A wonderful picture book introduction to a legendary American writer It's a special day when a little girl and her father go to visit the house whe...

From 'one of the greatest writers of our time' (Toni Morrison) - the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon - a collection of remarka...

Ever since its first flowering in the 1920s, jazz has had an influence on American poetry, and this anthology offers a collection of jazz poems. Fr...

Reducere. First published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhib...

Reducere. "The editing is more than brilliant: It is nearly unimaginable how the Library of America team managed to do so much so well. . . . Every possible ...

Reducere. Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in...

Reducere. Papa surprises Ana & Andrew with a day trip to Harlem in New York City! They visit places where famous African American artists lived, wrote, and p...

This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cove...

Reducere. DescriptionHailed as "a captivating and thorough study of a long-ignored aspect of America's art history" (CHOICE ), Creating Their Own Image offer...

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and ...

Reducere. Paul Marchant is an Idaho cowboy and rancher whose writing is well-known in the world of American agriculture. His column, Irons in the Fire, is pu...

Reducere. A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY: A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF ITS PLACE ON THE WORLD STAGE.Native American History is a breakthrough ref...

Reducere. "From the segregated Stratton High School in Beckley, West Virginia, to the prestigious Howard University in Washington, DC, to years of law enforc...

Reducere. Description" Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exit without it." -- Alice Wal...

Reducere. Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission ...

Reducere. Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission ...

DescriptionA brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s--"Smoketown will ap...

Reducere. DescriptionTogether, the nine works in Harlem Renaissance Novels form a vibrant collective portrait of African American culture in a moment of tumu...

Reducere. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaiss...

Reducere. Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining in...

Reducere. DescriptionWritten in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has hist...

Reducere. William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.About the Author: Wil...

Reducere. Description Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts is the only World War I novel written by an African American veteran. In the book, Montgom...

Reducere. Eloquent and assured, Mary McCarthy's The Stones of Florence beckons the reader on a brisk but sweeping tour of the birthplace of the Renaissance a...

Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2 includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American...

Reducere. In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in th...

Reducere. With 200, 000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), ...

Reducere. From one of America's most respected journalists and modern historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington Post) biography of Ji...

Reducere. You've seen the building. Now meet the man whose life went into it.Philip Freelon's grandfather was an acclaimed painter of the Harlem Renaissance....

Reducere. A collectible hardcover edition of our greatest African American poet's award-winning first novel about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely wh...

Reducere. Long before it came to prominence as the model city of the New South, as well as earning the title "the new Motown, " Atlanta was a hotbed of enter...

Reducere. Once considered the most famous African-American resort community in the country, Idlewild was referred to as the Black Eden of Michigan in the 192...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

Reducere. Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated ...

Reducere. We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.--Ralph Waldo Emerson, ""The American Scholar, "" 1837 F...

Reducere. Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a...

Reducere. Songs of Jamaica (1912) is a poetry collection by Claude McKay. Published before the poet left Jamaica for the United States, Songs of Jamaica is a...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly...

DescriptionFrom its crudely drawn vignettes on The Tracey Ullman Show to its nearly 700 episodes, The Simpsons has evolved from an alternative prog...

Reducere. Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American masterBe Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack S...

Joe Farrell and Joe Farley explore the cemeteries (and pubs) of Pennsylvania in search of interesting graves and stories about the interred. Includ...

Reducere. DescriptionNellallitea 'Nella' Larsen (first called Nellie Walker) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a fe...

Reducere. DescriptionNot for the faint of heart, Baroque to Blues is a collection of 15 compositions, including 5 duets, arranged for ukulele artists who are...

Reducere. Description"An eloquent account of the noble history of libraries, as it has unfolded from the earliest times to the present." --Nicholas A. Brasba...

Reducere. Poetry. California Interest. Afterword by Lytle Shaw. The Song Cave presents an expanded edition of the long out of print City Lights Books classic...

Reducere. DescriptionThe stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 th...

Reducere. Show kids ages 8 to 12 how Black Americans shaped US history in the 20th century From fighting against discrimination to changing the landscape of ...

Reducere. Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack ...

Reducere. DescriptionNearly lost after its anonymous publication in 1926 and only recently rediscovered, When Washington Was in Vogue is an acclaimed love st...

Reducere. ``Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.`` Alice Walker``A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categ...

Reducere. At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two ...

The finely aged history of Philadelphia brewing has been fermenting since before the crack appeared in the Liberty Bell. By the time thirsty immigr...

Reducere. In the spotlight with the publication of The Great Gatsby, the North Shore's Gold Coast boasted perhaps the greatest concentration of wealth in the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Katharine GalganoAn African is elected Pope as the Barque of Peter encounters heavy seas. Everywhere, the Faith and the Wes...

Reducere. Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writer...