| Description |
vi, 264 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- pt. 1. Aesthetics and the new Negro -- African American representations on stage : minstrel performances and Hurston's dream of a "real" Negro theatre / Mónica González Caldeiro -- No Negro Renaissance : Hubert H. Harrison and the role of the new Negro literary critic / Ousmane Kirumu Power-Greene -- It's all sacred music : Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the cathedral / Frank A. Salamone -- pt. 2. Class and place in Harlem -- "So the girl marries" : class, the black press, and the Du Bois-Cullen wedding of 1928 / Jacqueline C. Jones -- The meaning and significance of Southern tradition in Rudolph Fisher's stories / Aija Poikāne-Daumke -- Back to Harlem : abstract everyday labor during the Harlem Renaissance / Jacob S. Dorman -- pt. 3. Literary icons reconsidered -- Jessie Redmon Fauset reconsidered / Claire Oberon Garcia -- Speak it into existence : James Weldon Johnson's God's trombones and the power of self-definition in the new Negro Harlem Renaissance / McKinley Melton -- Border crossings : the diasporic travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston / Myriam J.A. Chancy -- The search for self in Wallace Thurman's The blacker the berry : color, class, and community / Martha E. Cook -- pt. 4. Gender constructions -- Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the hypermasculine African American Übermensch / Paula Marie Seniors -- Between Black gay men : artistic collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to brother / Shawn Anthony Christian -- pt. 5. Politics and the new Negro -- Perspectives on interwar culture : remapping the new Negro era / Perry Hall -- "Harlem globe-trotters" : Black sojourners in Stalin's Soviet Union / Maxim Matusevich -- Afterword. |
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Harlem Renaissance.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Ogbar, Jeffrey Ogbonna Green.
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| ISBN |
9780801894602 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0801894603 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780801894619 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0801894611 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
434745093 |
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