intellectual life

A biography of the life and art of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, including discussion of the development of African American consciousness and culture from the 1930s to the late 1970s.

Collection of interviews with sixteen African-American writers, including novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights, discussing race, gender, and their work.

A study of the lives and works of women writers who practiced their art during the Harlem Renaissance of the early twentieth century, focusing on African-American authors Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Presents a critical assessment of the creative achievements of five African-American women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, including Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Helen Johnson, Gwen Bennett, and Angelina Grimke, and includes discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God.".

Chronicles the history of African Americans the triumphs and tragedies from origins on the African continent to the end of the Harlem Renaissance.

Selected fiction and poetry, with a brief essay on each author.

Provides a collection of essays that examines how White American culture consistently and repeatedly takes aspects of African American culture for definition of their own.