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A collection of poems from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a multicultural gathering place for New York poets.

Alice, a reporter from Newark, meets and falls in love with Jack, a wealthy dentist from Boston, and must struggle with her insecurities concerning his family's wealth and status and the obvious friction encountered from Jack's mother and ex-girlfriend.

African-American Jordan Greene needs a little time to adjust after he moves from his small Tennessee home town to accept a job in Manhattan, and he is even more alarmed when he finds himself falling in love with a white woman.

The author's memoir of growing up white in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood of housing projects on New York's Lower East Side during the 1970s and '80s.

Manhattan private detective Leonid McGill, not quite accustomed to his commitment to the straight and narrow, cannot say no when Alphonse Rinaldo, New York City's ultimate fixer, asks him to run uptown and check on a young woman, and he is not surprised when he walks into a murder scene that makes him a prime suspect in the eyes of the police, and determines to find the now-missing girl and learn the truth about what is really going on.

A comprehensive anthology of short fiction written by African-American authors during the Harlem Renaissance.

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.

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.

Analyses, children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and explores the identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African-American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit the history and culture to the next generation.