Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History) - Hardcover

Aberjhani; West, Sandra L.

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9780816045396: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History)

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ISBN 10: 0816045399 ISBN 13: 9780816045396

Publisher: Facts on File, 2003

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Contains approximately 370 alphabetically arranged entries covering the emergence of new ideas in literature, political thought, civil rights, racial pride, and the arts during New York City's Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s.

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From the Author:

The story behind Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance has probably been told best in the personal essay "Strength to Carry On," which is included in The American Poet Who Went Home Again. I had quit my job as a bookstore manager in order to serve as a fulltime caregiver and was working as a freelance journalist while also writing the novel that eventually would become Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World. I had serious doubts about tackling a project as monumental as the first published encyclopedia on the Harlem Renaissance. After several rounds of debates with myself and consultations with co-author Sandra L. West, I decided such an encyclopedia was overdue and if my pen was required to help make it happen, then help make it happen I would.

Not only would it allow me to publicly express my gratitude for all that authors such as James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes had given to my life, but it would also allow me to provide educators with a powerful teaching tool and general readers with an entertaining inspiring guide to one of the most creatively brilliant and inspiring periods in American history. What writer wouldn't want to rise to such a wonderful challenge?
--Aberjhani

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In the decades of the 1920s and1930s in the section of New York City known as Harlem, there developed a unique awakening of mind and spirit, of race consciousness and artistic advancement. This declaration of African-American independence becameknown as the Harlem Renaissance. Stemming from the Great Migration whenlarge numbers of blacks living in the rural South made their way to theurban centers of the North and Midwest, it was marked by an emergence of new ideas in political thought; numerous groundbreaking artisticdevelopments in theater, music, literature, and visual arts; and aninauguration of civil rights organizations, unions, and otherassociations.

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance is a fascinating guideto this colorful and culturally productive era in African-Americanhistory. Including a foreword by Dr. Clement Alexander Price, anesteemed scholar and the current director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University; a generalintroduction; A-to-Z entries; a chronology; a glossary of slang; abibliography and list of sources for further reading, listening, andviewing; a subject index; and a general index, this encyclopediacontains an abundance of information presented in an accessible formatthat everyone can enjoy.

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