african american arts

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.

Includes more than 120 selections from the political writings, literature, and art of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, focusing on the youthfulness and exuberance of the period that symbolized the shaking off of slavery from the minds, spirits, and characters of African-Americans.

Collection of essays that discuss the complexities of race, class, and gender, exploring the relationships between black men and women, and looking at the good and bad in black popular culture.

A social history of the Harlem Renaissance following World War I, describing many African-American artists of the time.

Examines the Harlem Renaissance, providing information about the people, religion, recreation, and art of the era, and introducing prominent figures of the movement.