ISBN:
0203805585
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0415886872
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0415886880
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9780203805589
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9780415886871
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9780415886888
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9781136649110
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 260 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
New Directions in American History
Parallel Title:
Print version The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
DDC:
305.896/073078
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in the Harlem Renaissance between 1914 and 1940, have been overlooked and neglected as locations of scholarship and research. Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negro's Western Experience will change the way students and scholars of the Harlem Renaissance view the efforts of artists, musicians, play
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; The Harlem Renaissance in the American West; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Harlem Renaissance in the West: Cary D. Wintz and Bruce A. Glasrud; 1. Harlem in Houston: Charles Orson Cook; 2. North Texas's Black Art and Literature during the 1920s and 1930s: "The Current Is Much Stronger": Michael Phillips; 3. The Western Black Renaissance in the Kansas City Region: Marc Rice; 4. The New Negro Renaissance in Los Angeles, 1920-1940: Douglas Flamming
Description / Table of Contents:
5. "All God's Children Got Swing": The Black Renaissance in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1906-1941: Douglas Henry Daniels6. Harlem Renaissance in Oklahoma: Jean Van Delinder; 7. The New Negro Renaissance in Omaha and Lincoln, 1910-1940: Richard M. Breaux; 8. Harlem Renaissance West: Minneapolis and St. Paul, the "Twin Cities" of Minnesota: Carolyn Wedin; 9. The San Antonio/Austin Renaissance: Where "the Daddies of Jazz" Remembered the Alamo: Jeanette N. Passty; 10. The Black Renaissance in the Desert Southwest: Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Harlem Renaissance in Denver: George H. Junne, Jr.12. Black Renaissance in Helena and Laramie: Hatched on Top of the Rocky Mountains: Charlotte Hinger; 13. A Renaissance in Seattle and Portland: Kimberley Mangun; 14. Harlem Renaissance in San Diego: New Negroes and Community: Charles P. Toombs; A Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
