Selected Bibliography: Audio-Visual

A Meditation on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance: With the Poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent. Sankofa Film and Video. NY: Water Bearer Films, 1992.

Black History Month 1992 / [National Humanities Center]. Research Triangle Park, NC: The Center, 1992. 2 sound cassettes 120 min..

Dance Theater of Harlem. Video. 117 min. 1989. # 9S865. Insight Media, NY. 212-721-6316.

From These Roots: A Review of the Harlem Renaissance. Schromburg Center for Research and Black Culture. New York, NY: William Greaves Productions, Inc., 1988.1 videocassette 29 min.: sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. Video. 31 min. 1989. # 9S541. Insight Media, NY. 212-721-6316. PS508 .N3 H37x

Selected Bibliography1980-1999

Andrews, William L. Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.

Baker, Houston A., Jr. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996.

---. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.

---. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987. PS153 .N5 B25

Bassett, John E. Harlem in Review: Critical Reactions to Black American Writers, 1917-1939. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 1992. PS153 .N5 B37

Campbell, Mary S. ed. Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. New York: Abrams, 1987. N6538 .N5 H286

Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. NY: Oxford UP, 1987. PS153 .N5 C37

Dallas Museum of Art. Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art. NY: Abrams, 1989. N 6538 .N5 B525

De Jongh, James. Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination. NY: Cambridge UP, 1990. PS153 .N5 D4

Douglas, Ann. Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. F128.5 .D68

Driskell, David C., and others. Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. NY: Abrams, 1987. N6538 .N5 H286

Fabre, Michel. From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1991. PS153 .N5 F34

Favor, J. Martin. Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1999. PS153 .N5 F38

Floyd, Samuel A. ed. Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance: A Collection Of Essays. NY: Greenwood P, 1990. ML3556.8 .N5 B6

Franklin, V. P. Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition. NY: Oxford UP, 1995. E185.96 .F74

Gates, Henry L. Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. NY: Oxford UP, 1988. PS153 .N5 G28

Greenberg, Cheryl. "Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression. NY: Oxford UP, 1991.

Hamalian, Leo, and James V. Hatch. The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991. PS628 .N4 R66

Harris, Trudier. Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume Fiftyone. Detroit: Gale, 1986. PN 451 .D52

Hatch, James V., and Leo Hamalian. eds. Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance: 1920-1940. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996.

Hatch, James V., and Ted Shine. eds. Black Theatre U.S.A.: Plays by African Americans 1847 to Today. NY: Free P, 1996. PS628 .N4 B56

Hull, Gloria. Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.

Hutchinson, George. The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Cambridge: Belknap--Harvard UP, 1995. PS153 .N5 H86

Johnson, Abby A., and Ronald M. Johnson. Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1991. PS153 .N5 J6

Johnson, Eloise E. Rediscovering the Harlem Renaissance: The Politics of Exclusion. NY: Garland, 1997.

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Kellner, Bruce. The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1984. NX511 .N4 H37

Knopf, Marci., ed. The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1993.

Kramer, Victor A., ed. The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined. New York: AMS P, 1987.

Lewis, David L. When Harlem was in Vogue. NY: Knopf, 1981. NX511.N4 L48

- - -. ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. NY: Viking, 1994.

Marks, Carole, and Diana Edkins. The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Crown, 1999.

Martin, Tony. African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance. Dover, Mass.: Majority P, 1991.

Maxwell, William J. New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars. NY: Columbia UP, 1999. PS153 .N5 M269

Mitchell, Angelyn. ed. Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994.

Nelson, Cary. Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989. PS310 .M57 N45

North, Michael. The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature. NY: Oxford UP, 1994. PS153 .N5 N67

Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto. Negro New York, 1890-1930. Reprinted second edition. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. F128.68 .H3 O86

Perry, Margaret. The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary. NY: Garland Pub., 1982. Z5956 .A47 P47

Roses, Lorraine E. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990. Ref. PS153 .N5 R65

- - -, and Ruth E. Randolph. eds. Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1996. PS508 .N3 H37

Russ, Robert A. The Harlem Renaissance: A Selected Bibliography. NY: AMS, 1987.

Sanders, Mark A. Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1999.

Scruggs, Charles W. The Sage in Harlem: H.L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984. PS3525 .E43 Z82

Singh, Amritjit, et al, ed. The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations. NY: Garland, 1989.

Spencer, Jon Michael. The New Negroes and Their Music: The Success of the Harlem Renaissance. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1997. ML3556 .S77

Studio Museum in Harlem. Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. NY: Abrams, 1987. N6538 .N5 H286

Sudhalter, Richard M. Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz 1915-1945. NY: Oxford UP, 1999.

undquist, Eric J. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. PS153 .N5 S9

Thurman, Wallace. ed. Fire!! Facsimile edition of a periodical published in New York. Metuchen, N.J.: Fire!! Press, 1982. NX1 .F572x

Tyler, Bruce M. From Harlem to Hollywood: The Struggle for Racial and Cultural Democracy, 1920-1943. New York: Garland, 1992. NX512.3 .A35 T95

Wagner, Jean. Black Poets of the United States. Urbana-Champaigne: U of Illinois P, 1989. PS153 N5 W313

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. PS153 .N5 W33

Washington, Mary H. Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960. Garden City: Anchor P, 1987.

Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. NY: Pantheon Books, 1995.

Weixlmann, Joe, and Houston A. Baker, Jr., ed. Studies in Black American Literature. Greenwood, Fl: Penkeville, 1988.

Williams, Michael. The African American Encyclopedia. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1993.

Wintz, Cary D. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance. Houston: Rice UP, 1988.

- - -. ed. The Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940: Interpretation of an African American Literary Movement. NY: Garland, 1996. 7-Volume set. PS153 .N5 H24

- - -. ed. The Emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Garland, 1996. PS153 .N5 H24

- - -. ed. Remembering the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Garland, 1996. PS153 .N5 H24

- - -. ed. Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Garland, 1996. PS153 .N5 H24

Woodson, Jon. To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. PS3539 .O478 Z95

Wright, John S. A Stronger Soul Within a Finer Frame: Portraying African-Americans in the Black Renaissance. Minneapolis: U Art Museum, U of Minnesota, 1990.

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Aberjhani, and Sandra L. West. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Facts on File 2003

Anderson, Paul A. Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001. In Processing.

Baldwin, Kate A. Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002.

Banks, William H., Jr. ed. Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Classics to the Contemporary. NY: Harlem Moon, 2005.

Boyd, Herb. ed. The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the Twenty-First Century. NY: Three Rivers, 2003. 

Carroll, Anne E. Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005.

Comprone, Raphael. Poetry, Desire, and Fantasy in the Harlem Renaissance. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2006.

Dawahare, Anthony. Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between Wars: A New Pandora's Box. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2003.

Doyle, Laura., and Laura A. Winkiel. eds. Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005.

Edwards, Brent H. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.

English, Daylanne K. Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2004

Fabre, Genevieve, and Michel Feith. eds. Temples for tomorrow: looking back at the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001. PS153 .N5 T45

Ferguson, Jeffrey B. The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 2005. PS3537 .C76 Z66

Gable, Craig, ed. Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004.

Goldsby, Jacqueline. A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Holcomb, Gary E. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007.

Hutchinson, George. In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2006.

Keresztesi, Rita. Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2005.

Krasner, David. A beautiful pageant: African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. PS338 .N4 K73

Leonard, Keith D. Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006.

Mance, Ajuan M. Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877-2000. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2007.

Mitchell, Verner D. ed. This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2000. PS3560 .O37834 A6

Nicholls, David G. Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000.

- - -. ed. Harlem Calling: The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson: An Alabama writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2006.

Patton, Venetria K., and Maureen Honey. eds. Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001. PS509 .N4 D68

Rasmussen, R. Kent. The African American encyclopedia. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2001. E185 .A253 2001 Library Has: v.1-v.10

Reid, Margaret A., and Nikki Giovanni. Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties. NY: Peter Lang, 2001

Schwarz, A. B. Christa. Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003. PS153 .G38 S39

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene. Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2007.

Sosnoski, James J. and others. eds. Configuring History: Teaching the Harlem Renaissance through Virtual Reality Cityscapes. NY: Peter Lang, 2006.

Stephens, Michelle A. Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962. Durham: Duke UP, 2005.

Washington, Robert E. The ideologies of African American literature: from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black nationalist revolt: a sociology of literature perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. PS153 .N5 W35

Wintz, Cary D., and Paul Finkleman. eds. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Ist Edition. 2-vol set. Routledge, 2004.

Witalec, Janet, and Trudier Harris-Lopez. eds. Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion. Detroit: Gale, 2002.

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