Cross-searchable resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, The HistoryMakers® Videos and full transcripts for interviews with 100 contemporary African Americans, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP), historical black newspapers, and the Black Literature Index.
Full text of Modern Scandals and The Decades (America in the Nineties, etc), and other online reference books
Defining Moments: The Harlem Renaissance
Call Number: Reference NS 512.3 .A35 H55
An introductory volume on this era, collecting a "narrative overview," followed by biographies of 10 of the prominent figures, and finally some primary sources from authors such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, and Dorothy West.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by West
Call Number: Reference PS 153 .N5 A24 2003
Covers the makers of "music, sculpture, poems and novels" of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as the places, organizations and people who influenced it. Signed articles with bibliographies.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz, Paul Finkelman
Call Number: Reference NX512.3 .A35 E53 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Longer profiles of people and works of the Harlem Renaissance. Signed articles with bibliographies.
Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature by Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr.
Call Number: Reference PS153 .N5 G73 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Covers African-American writers, literary movements, and important places in African-American literary history, such as Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion by Janet Witalec
Call Number: Reference PS 153 .N5 H245 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Entries on the general aspects of the Harlem Renaissance (vol. 1) and literary-critical entries on writers of the Harlem Renaissance, each including material by the author as well as critical essays from other sources.
African American periodicals, annuals and reports published from 1829-1922 including materials from African American religious organizations and social service agencies.
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