Pathfinder: Harlem
Renaissance
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Journals,
Periodicals & Trade
Publications|Article
Databases|Videos|Web
Sites
*Also see the
library's pathfinder
on
African American
Writers.
SCOPE:
Harlem, New York,
during the period
after World War I,
began to see an
influx of
Afro-American
artists and writers
whose creativity
sparked an interest
and respect for the
race and their
creative abilities
among white society.
Race relations began
to improve. This
renaissance or
rebirth of black
arts and culture
continued to
flourish thorough
the 1940’s. Some of
America’s finest
writers, poets, and
artists emerged and
gained popularity
during this period.
(Lehman, The
African American
Almanac)
The purpose of this
pathfinder is to
serve as a guideline
for student
research. It is not
intended as a
comprehensive
listing of all the
resources available
in the library on
this topic, but as a
selective sampling
of the many types of
materials available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with
the subject of the
Harlem Renaissance
are listed in the
Baddour Library’s
online catalog under
the following
subject headings:
OVERVIEW SOURCES
There are books in
the Reference
Section that provide
an overview or
summary of the topic
you are researching.
The following titles
are appropriate to
this topic.
REF E 185.E77 2003
The African American
Almanac
REF PS
21.D5Afro-American
Writers from the
Harlem Renaissance
to 1940
REF E 169.13 A419
American Decades
1940-1949
REF E 185.96.B545
1989 Black Writers
REF PS 303.C64 1993
The Columbia History
of American Poetry
REF PR 502.C85 1992
Critical Survey of
Poetry
REF E185.R44 1994
Reference Library of
Black America
REF E 169.1 S764
2000 St. James
Encyclopedia of
Popular Culture
Some representative
books from the
Circulating
Collection that are
located upstairs in
the library are:
CIRCULATING
BOOKS
Bailey, David A.
Rhapsodies in Black:
Art of the Harlem
Renaissance.
Berkeley:
University of
California Press,
1997.
Carroll, Anne
Elizabeth.
Word, Image, and the
New Negro:
Representation and
Identity in the
Harlem Renaissance.
Bloomington: Indiana
University Press,
2005.
Driskell, David,
David LeveringLewis, Deborah Willis Ryan.
Harlem Renaissance: Art
of Black America. New York: Abradale Press, 1994.
Fabre, Genevieve &
Michel Feith.
Temples for
Tomorrow: Looking
Back at the Harlem
Renaissance.
Bloomington: Indiana
University Press,
2001.
Hughes, Langston.
Mule Bone: A Comedy
of Negro Life.
New York:
HarperPerennial,
1991.
Hutchinson, George.
The Harlem
Renaissance in Black
and White.
Cambridge, MA:
Belknap Press of
Harvard University
Press, 1995.
Jones, Sharon L.
Rereading the Harlem
Renaissance Race,
Class, and Gender in
the Fiction of
Jessie Fauset, Zora
Neale Hurston, and
Dorothy West.
Westport, Conn:
Greenwood Press,
2002.
Lewis, David L.
When Harlem Was in
Vogue. New York:
Oxford University
Press,
1989.
Nugent, Bruce.
Gay Rebel of the
Harlem Renaissance:
Selections from the
Work of Richard
Bruce Nugent.
Durham, N.C.: Duke
University Press,
2002.
Sacks, Marcy S.
Before Harlem: The
Black Experience in
New York City Before
World War I.
Philadelphia:
University of
Pennsylvania Press,
2006.
Tracy, Steven C.
Langston Hughes &
the Blues.
Urbana: University
of Illinois Press,
2001.
Wall, Cheryl A.
Women of the Harlem
Renaissance.
Bloomington: Indiana
University Press,
1995.
Watson, Steven.
The Harlem
Renaissance: Hub of
African-American
Culture, 1920-
1930. New York:
Pantheon Books,
1995.
Some of the specific
periodicals that the
library subscribes
to that focus on the
subject of the
Harlem Renaissance
are:
JOURNALS,
PERIODICALS, & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the link for a
list of full text
journals available
through our
databases in:
ARTICLE DATABASES
VIDEOS
N6538.N5 A5 1999
Against the Odds:
The Artists of the
Harlem Renaissance
PS591.N4 H37 1971
Harlem Renaissance:
The Black Poets
WEB SITES
Harlem History
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/index.html
This website offers
an in-depth look at
Harlem from the
1920’s through the
20th century in the
world of art,
culture, and
politics.
Literary Resources
on the Web
http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
The Schomburg
Exhibition, Harlem,
1900-1940
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/
Updated
10/22/2007 |
