ISBN 9780195387957 | 0195387953 Textbooks - "Harlem Renaissance Lives" by Gates Henry Louis Jr editor Higginbotham Evelyn Brooks editor Wintz Cary D introduction

Authors: Gates - Henry Louis - Jr. (editor); Higginbotham - Evelyn Brooks (editor); Wintz - Cary D.…
ISBN 10: 0195387953
ISBN 13: 9780195387957
Release: March 27, 2009
Format: Hardcover (608 pages)
List Price: $50.00
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, World Literature, United States,

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The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham have selected 300 key biographical entries culled from the eight-volume African American National Biography, providing an authoritative who's who of this seminal period. Here readers will find engagingly written and authoritative articles on notable African Americans who made significant contributions to literature, drama, music, visual art, or dance, including such central figures as poet Langston Hughes, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, aviator Bessie Coleman, blues singer Ma Rainey, artist Romare Bearden, dancer Josephine Baker, jazzman Louis Armstrong, and the intellectual giant W. E. B. Du Bois. Also included are biographies of people like the Scottsboro Boys, who were not active within the movement but who nonetheless profoundly affected the artistic and political statements that came from Harlem Renaissance figures. The volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.

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