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Harlem Renaissance Holiday Fete 2014 (party)
Harlem Renaissance Holiday Fete 2014 (party) Harlem Renaissance Holiday Fete Harlem Renaissance Holiday Fete Hosted by Tayari Jones & Kiese Laymon Wednesday, December 17th 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at ...
Carl Van Vechten And The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait In Black And White
Carl Van Vechten And The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait In Black And White Emily Bernard 9780300121995 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a pa...
Moody Holiday
Moody Holiday NONE Brooklyn-born author Moody Holiday, graduated from Montclair State University and Seton Hall University School of Law. A busy career mom and Zumba instructor, she excels in spinnin...
Anne Spencer
Anne Spencer 0000000458445176 Anne Bannister Spencer was a lauded American poet, civil rights activist, and librarian during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1882, she was the first African-American w...
Claude McKay
Claude McKay 0000000108625951 Festus Claudius McKay, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Jamaica and authored influential works including the poem “If We Must Die” and novel “Home to ...
Africans in Harlem
Africans in Harlem Boukary Sawadogo 9780823299126 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem. ...
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola 9780271080963 Nonfiction Penn State University Press Penn State University...
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Ren…
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Ren… Thumper Book Review Richard Bruce Nugent is the best well-kept secret of the Harlem Renaissance. Nugent isn’t unheard of in the annals of the Renaissance; ...
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excerpt "Some Technicolor Bazaar" How Harlem Became the Center of the Universe Harlem!&helli...
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Carla Kaplan 9780060882372 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Ha...
Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance
Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance Carla Kaplan 9780060882389 Nonfiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss An...
Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson 0000000038623095 Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) was an African American poet, essayist, and editor who significantly contributed to the Harlem Renaissance. His work, including his well-kno...
A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis The Season To Be Jewish
A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis The Season To Be Jewish Joshua Eli Plaut 9780813553801 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Christmas is not everybody’s favorite holiday. Historically...
Renaissance in Harlem
Renaissance in Harlem Lionel C. Bascom 9780380976645 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Digging beneath the glitter of the African American artistic outpouring early in this century dubbed the Ha...
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson 9781568528403 Fiction Konecky & Konecky Konecky & Konecky Decembe...
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Connie Bradley Book Review Definitions of Miss Anne: A coded term for any white woman. A derisive name for a white woman. An emanc...
Harlem Renaissance Party
Harlem Renaissance Party Faith Ringgold 9780060579111 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the Harlem Renaissance...
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance Jose Andres and Matt Goulding Excerpt “Harlem” by Alain Locke If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem has come to mean in the short s...
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance Joyce Moore Turner 9780252072413 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance is a...
Wallace Thurman
Wallace Thurman 0000000080916692 Wallace Henry Thurman, born in 1902, was an influential figure during the Harlem Renaissance. Known for his realistic portrayals of lower-class black American society...
Holiday House
Holiday House Holiday House Holiday House, Inc. Since its beginnings in 1935 as the first American publishing house founded with the purpose of publishing only children’s books, Holiday House h...
Holiday House
Holiday House Holiday House, Inc. Holiday House Margaret Ferguson Books Neal Porter Books Since its beginnings in 1935 as the first American publishing house founded with the purpose of publishing on...
If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search Of Billie Holiday
If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search Of Billie Holiday Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780345449733 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House More than four decades after her death, Billie ...
The Best Man Holiday
The Best Man Holiday Kam Williams the-best-man-holiday.jpg Film Review Seasonal Sequel Finds Reunited BFFs Romancing and Reminiscing The Best Man Holiday In Theaters: Nov 15, 2013 Wide Rated ...
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781681199443 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a...
Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography
Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 9780195387957 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Th...
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781416534884 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance pro...
Gwendolyn Bennett
Gwendolyn Bennett 0000000041133249 Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an influential American artist, writer, and journalist during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1902, she contributed to Opportunity, publish...
Voices of The Harlem Renaissance
Voices of The Harlem Renaissance Alain Locke Article From Locke’s essay “Harlem,” published in the March 1925 issue of Survey Graphic. If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Loading Selected by Library Journal as one of the ten best magazines of 1996 Vol. 3 No. 1 Fall 2000 Manthia Diawara Editor-in-Chief Barbara Lewis Managing Editor B...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Loading Black Renaissance Noire African American Literature Book Club - The #1 Site for "Readers of Black Literature" AALBC.com Home � Back&...
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series) Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. 9780252078583 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Beginning in the 193...
The World of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle
The World of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle Noa Denmon 9781913947057 Nonfiction Laurence King Hachette UK Limited 1000-PIECE PUZZLE: Piece together the rich and flourishing world of early 20t...
What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
What Was the Harlem Renaissance? Sherri L. Smith 9780593225905 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black...
Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance
Literary Garveyism: Garvey, Black Arts and the Harlem Renaissance Tony Martin 9780912469010 Nonfiction The Majority Press Black Classic Press "Martin performs a valuable service….[Garvey’s literary co...
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up Renita Bryant 9781957092928 Fiction Mynd Matters Publishing Mynd Matters Publishing Santa and his sleigh are loaded up with gifts and headed to spread holiday cheer with nothing...
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning Grant Harper Reid 9781976572838 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Harlem Bible—-In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant...
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance George Hutchinson 9780521856997 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press The Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937) was the most influ...
Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance A’Lelia Bundles 9781416544425 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker—da...
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Ethelene Whitmire 9780252038501 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press The first African American to head a branch o...
Neal Porter Books
Neal Porter Books Holiday House Holiday House, Inc. Since its beginnings in 1935 as the first American publishing house founded with the purpose of publishing only children’s books, Holiday Hou...
Holiday Temptation
Holiday Temptation Donna Hill, Farrah Rochon and K.M. Jackson 9781496702463 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. ’Tis the season to satisfy your holiday desires with this festive trio of sexy st...
The Last Holiday: A Memoir
The Last Holiday: A Memoir Gil Scott-Heron 9780802120571 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. The stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday h...
Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590785072 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave bi...
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (Revised)
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (Revised) Robert G. O’Meally 9780306809590 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn’t o...
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 Allon Schoener 9781595581587 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the ...
I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100
I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 Wil Haygood 9780847863129 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications One hundred years after the Harlem Renaissance emerged as a cre...
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance Nathan Huggins 9780195063363 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as &q...
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten 0000000115587789 Carl Van Vechten, the great popularizer of the Harlem Renaissance for white people. Carl Van Vechten was a renowned photographer and author, best known for his contri...
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History Herb Boyd 9781531514433 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, polit...
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era Shannon King 9781479889082 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Read the Intro...
Hunting in Harlem
Hunting in Harlem Mat Johnson 9781582342726 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Gentrification-by any means necessary. With the help of new employees Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons...
Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now
Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now Akili Tommasino 9781588397850 Nonfiction Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art The first publication to examine the symboli...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback) Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043862 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestsell...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043855 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestselling autho...
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781619635548 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing A 2017 New York Public Library Best Kids Book of the Year ...
The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine
The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine Sondra Kathryn Wilson 9780375753794 Fiction Modern Library Penguin Random House Modern Library Harlem R...
Dorothy West
Dorothy West 0000000117719538 Dorothy West (1907-1998) was an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance and the last surviving member. Known for her short stories, she debuted with her novel 'The ...
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston 0000000109083197 “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the titans of twentieth-century African American ...
Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White
Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White Kam Williams Book Review “This book is a portrait of a once-controversial figure… a white man with a passion ...
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century Sara Blair 9780691130873 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Harlem riot of 1935 not o...
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996)
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) Marie Brown Article ’ An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) by ’Marie Brown (presented a...
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean James Davis 9780231157841 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was ...
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance Laban Carrick Hill 9780316034241 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group First released in 2004, this meticulou...
Alain Locke
Alain Locke 0000000108789294 Celebrate the Centennial of Survey Graphic on March 23, 2025, at 6 PM ET. Register Here Born in 1886, Alain LeRoy Locke was an influential educator, writer, and phil...
Harlem Redux: A Novel
Harlem Redux: A Novel Persia Walker 9780743224970 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome young lawyer from a prominent...
Hunting In Harlem
Hunting In Harlem Thumper Book Review I am always excited when new authors enter the scene because they expand the dimensions of our existence through literature that is vibrant, challenging and im...
Black Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance Noire Troy Johnson Article Selected by Library Journal as one of the ten best magazines of 1996 Vol. 3 No. 1 Fall 2000 Manthia Diawara Editor-in-C...
Life of the Party
Life of the Party Harmony Holiday 9781635902013 Nonfiction Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museu...
Li’l Rabbit’s Kwanzaa: A Kwanzaa Holiday Book for Kids
Li’l Rabbit’s Kwanzaa: A Kwanzaa Holiday Book for Kids Donna L. Washington 9780060728182 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Share this Kwanzaa story with your family or in the classroom. “Very bright...
A Perfect Holiday Fling
A Perfect Holiday Fling Farrah Rochon 9781938125331 Fiction Nicobar Press Nicobar Press It’s no mystery why veterinarian Callie Webber is having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit. When the r...
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, And An Early Cry For Civil Rights David Margolick 9780762406777 Nonfiction Running Press Hachette Book Group From four-time Pulitzer Prize nominee David Ma...
Arthur Herzog, Jr.
Arthur Herzog, Jr. MULTIPLE Arthur Herzog, Jr., a songwriter, has penned a number of songs performed and recorded by top jazz musicians including John Coltrane and Dinah Washington. His most notable ...
The Black Chicago Renaissance
The Black Chicago Renaissance Kam Williams Book Review “Beginning in the 1930s and lasting into the 1950s, black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that rivaled and, some argued, exce...
Harlem Rhapsody (paperback)
Harlem Rhapsody (paperback) Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593638507 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! “A gripping narrative, don’t miss this histori...
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava Gary Golio 9781662680557 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator ...
Harlem Book Fair - 2006
Harlem Book Fair - 2006 Harlem Book Fair - 2006 Harlem Book Fair 2006 Street Map Shows location of vendors on the street as of July 20 2006 Advertise your book in the official program g...
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook Celeste Beatty 9781631068515 Nonfiction Rock Point Books Carter-Krall Imprint Experience beer-infused soul food recipes from the founder of Harlem B...
Harlem at Four
Harlem at Four Michael Datcher 9780593429334 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House A stunning picture book comprised of two incredible stories— the first part of the book chronicles the adv...
Harlem Street Portraits
Harlem Street Portraits Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen 9780764344879 Fiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the hu...
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott ReShonda Tate 9780063421189 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel inspired by belo...
The Creation (25th Anniversary Edition)
The Creation (25th Anniversary Edition) James Ransome 9780823440252 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House An award-winning retelling of the Biblical creation story from a star of the Harlem Renaissance ...
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West 9780062915795 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (as described by Toni M...
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian Ethelene Whitmire 9780252081309 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press The first African American to head a branc...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195
AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195 Troy Johnson Article Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle By Troy Johnson Authors...
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance Eleanora E. Tate 9780316113625 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group It’s 1921, and when Celeste Lassiter Massey goes to stay with her Aunt Valentina in Ha...
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance Eleanora E. Tate 9780316523943 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group When Celeste Lassiter Massey is forced to live with her actress Aunt Valen...
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters Carla Kaplan 9780385490368 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House A landmark collection of more than five hundred letters written by Zora Neale Hurston, a woman ...
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen 0000000081534450 Countée Porter Cullen (1903-1946) was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his poetry books “Color” and “Copper Sun.” He taught and mentored James ...
Mae V. Cowdery
Mae V. Cowdery 0000000068646714 Mae V. Cowdery (1909–1948) was a gifted poet of the Harlem Renaissance whose work explored racial pride, love, and sensuality with unusual candor for her era. Born in...
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries Davida Siwisa James 9781531506148 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press Explo...
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Herb Boyd 9780743293082 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). ...
Harlem Crossroads
Harlem Crossroads Kam Williams Book Review ’The story I tell begins with an introductory account of how photography came to Harlem- that is, how Harlem became, after the Renaissance and at...
Harlem Sunset
Harlem Sunset Nekesa Afia 9780593199121 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer! A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd...
A Death in Harlem: A Novel
A Death in Harlem: A Novel Karla FC Holloway 9780810140813 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press ”Holloway’s debut novel will take you on a journey that reveals a fresh, richly laye...
Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture
Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture Lionel C. Bascom 9781440842689 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood Publishing Group Focusing on the contributions of civic reformers and pol...
’O, Write My Name’ : American Portraits, Harlem Heroes
’O, Write My Name’ : American Portraits, Harlem Heroes Carl Van Vechten 9780871300706 Fiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation ’O, Write My Name’: American Portraits, Harlem Heroes pres...
Louise Meriwether
Louise Meriwether 0000000110768302 Louise Meriwether was a renowned novelist, essayist, journalist, and activist, best known for her children's biographies of significant African Americans. Born in N...