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Read their stories, See their works and lives, Hear their voices Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes Claude McKay Richard Wright Duke Ellington Jacob Lawrence Ethel Waters Josephine Baker Bessie Smith ?and more Harlem Speaks showcases the artists, writers, poets, and intellectuals behind the stunning... More

"This collection is a fitting reminder that black leadership in America has a rich and complex history that defies any monolithic or facile generalizations". -- Choice... More

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical "Show Boat," the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The "Encyclopedia of the Harlem Re... More

Order early and save $100 when you buy this set at the special introductory price of $495 List price of $595 (08) is effective 5/1/09. Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia... More

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. This collection, designed for courses on Texas history or the history of southwest, covers the sub... More

Black writers and intellectuals struggled to articulate an aesthetic for African American literature and to define the appropriate relationship between an African American literary movement and the racial politics of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. This volume contains examples of the lite... More

One of the most interesting features of the Harlem Renaissance was the degree to which black writers and poets were involved in promoting and analyzing their own literary movement. One of its formative events was the 1926 attempt by Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes and other young writers to publish... More