Selected Bibliography: Audio-Visual

A Meditation on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance: With the Poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent. Sankofa Film and Video. NY: Water Bearer Films, 1992.

Black History Month 1992 / [National Humanities Center]. Research Triangle Park, NC: The Center, 1992. 2 sound cassettes 120 min..

Dance Theater of Harlem. Video. 117 min. 1989. # 9S865. Insight Media, NY. 212-721-6316.

From These Roots: A Review of the Harlem Renaissance. Schromburg Center for Research and Black Culture. New York, NY: William Greaves Productions, Inc., 1988.1 videocassette 29 min.: sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.

Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. Video. 31 min. 1989. # 9S541. Insight Media, NY. 212-721-6316. PS508 .N3 H37x

Selected Bibliography 2000-2005

Aberjhani, and Sandra L. West. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Facts on File 2003

Anderson, Paul A. Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001. In Processing.

Baldwin, Kate A. Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922-1963. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002.

Banks, William H., Jr. ed. Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Classics to the Contemporary. NY: Harlem Moon, 2005.

Boyd, Herb. ed. The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the Twenty-First Century. NY: Three Rivers, 2003. 

Carroll, Anne E. Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005.

Dawahare, Anthony. Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between Wars: A New Pandora's Box. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2003.

Doyle, Laura., and Laura A. Winkiel. eds. Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2005.

Edwards, Brent H. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.

English, Daylanne K. Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2004

Fabre, Genevieve, and Michel Feith. eds. Temples for tomorrow: looking back at the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001. PS153 .N5 T45

Ferguson, Jeffrey B. The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance. New Haven: Yale UP, 2005. PS3537 .C76 Z66

Gable, Craig, ed. Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004.

Keresztesi, Rita. Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2005.

Krasner, David. A beautiful pageant: African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. PS338 .N4 K73

Mitchell, Verner D. ed. This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2000. PS3560 .O37834 A6

Nicholls, David G. Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000.

Patton, Venetria K., and Maureen Honey. eds. Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001. PS509 .N4 D68

Rasmussen, R. Kent. The African American encyclopedia. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 2001. E185 .A253 2001 Library Has: v.1-v.10

Reid, Margaret A., and Nikki Giovanni. Black Protest Poetry: Polemics from the Harlem Renaissance and the Sixties. NY: Peter Lang, 2001

Schwarz, A. B. Christa. Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003. PS153 .G38 S39

Stephens, Michelle A. Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962. Durham: Duke UP, 2005.

Washington, Robert E. The ideologies of African American literature: from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black nationalist revolt: a sociology of literature perspective. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. PS153 .N5 W35

Wintz, Cary D., and Paul Finkleman. eds. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Ist Edition. 2-vol set. Routledge, 2004.

Witalec, Janet, and Trudier Harris-Lopez. eds. Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion. Detroit: Gale, 2002.

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Baldwin, Davarian L. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life. Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P, 2007

Bernier, Celeste-Marie. African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2009.

Comprone, Raphael. Poetry, Desire, and Fantasy in the Harlem Renaissance. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2006.

Goldsby, Jacqueline. A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Hagood, Taylor. Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2010.

Holcomb, Gary E. Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007.

Hutchinson, George. In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2006.

Leiter, Andrew B. In the Shadow of the Black Beast: African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2010.

Leonard, Keith D. Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2006.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Oxford UP, 2010.

Mance, Ajuan M. Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877-2000. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2007.

McCann, Paul. Race, Music, and National Identity: Images of Jazz in American Fiction, 1920-1960. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2008.

Nicholls, David G. ed. Harlem Calling: The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson: An Alabama writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2006.

Outka, Paul. Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Powell, Isabel W. and Joyce Burnett. Adam's Belle: A Memoir of Love Without Bounds. Springfield, VA: DBM Press, 2008.

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene. Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2007.

Sosnoski, James J. and others. eds. Configuring History: Teaching the Harlem Renaissance through Virtual Reality Cityscapes. NY: Peter Lang, 2006.

Thaggert, Miriam. Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2010.

Vogel, Shane. The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.

Whalan, Mark. The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2008.

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Artuso, Kathryn S. Transatlantic Renaissances: Literature of Ireland and the American South. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2013.

Bernard, Emily. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2012.

Jarrett, Gene A. Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature. NY: New York UP, 2011.

Jones, Meta D. The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 2011.

Kahan, Benjamin. Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2013.

Kaplan, Carla. Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance. NY: Harper, 2013.

Massood, Paula J. Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2013.

Miller, Henry D. Theorizing Black Theatre: Art Versus Protest in Critical Writings, 1898-1965. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011

Mitchell, Verner D. Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, a Biography of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2011

Prentiss, Craig R. Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. NY: New York UP, 2013.

Smethurst, James. The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2011.

Watts, Eric K. Hearing the Hurt: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and Politics of the New Negro Movement. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2012.

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