african american arts

Presents works from the Harlem Renaissance showcasing a variety of genres including poetry, short stories, and drama.

Contains critical articles which analyze important literary works from the Harlem Renaissance and provide information about the genre's most influential writers and works.

Presents works of art from African-American history, discussing what they say about African-American life, culture, and politics during the era of slavery, after emancipation, and throughout the twentieth century.

An overview of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, covering the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the 1910s and 1920s and the rise of African American cultural arts, especially in New York City.

Lonnie and his Uncle Bates go back in time to Harlem in the 1920s and meet famous writers, musicians, artists, and athletes-- from Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois to Josephine Baker and Zora Neale Hurston-- and many more who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.

Describes the events of the Harlem Renaissance and explains its impact on arts and culture, in a book where the reader's choices reveal the historical details from three different perspectives.

Explores how five African civilizations, Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande, and Cross River, have influenced and been portrayed in the aesthetic, social, and meta-physical traditions of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil, and other places in the New World.

Presents an annotated collection of the writings and speeches of Paul Robeson that reveal the extent of the singer's thoughts and activities on behalf of African and African-American people; and includes a selection of newspaper reports and interviews.

Offers informative material on African-Americans who have achieved distinction in the arts and as entertainers.