Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience, Vol. 2: Since 1865

History

Huggins, Nathan Irvin

Africa

Harcourt College Pub.

Harlem Renaissance

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance is a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. A superb portrait of one of the signal episodes in African-American and American history, this volume offers a brilliant account of the creative explosion in Harlem during these pivotal years. Blending the fields of history, literature, music, psychology, and folklore, Huggins illuminates the thought and writing of such key figures as Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson, and W.E.B. DuBois and provides sharp-eyed analyses of the poetry of Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. But the main objective for Huggins, throughout the book, is always to achieve a better understanding of America as a whole. As Huggins himself noted, he didn't want Harlem in the 1920s to be the focus of the book so much as a lens through which readers might see how this one moment in time sheds light on the American character and culture, not just in Harlem but across the nation. He strives throughout to link the work of poets and novelists not only to artists working in other genres and media but also to economic, historical, and cultural forces in the culture at large.

Americas

Portrays the life of the fugitive slave, abolitionist, and diplomat, paying attention to the meaning of freedom in America during the Civil War era and Douglass' significance to the struggle for human and civil rights.

Slave and citizen: The life of Frederick Douglass (Library of American biography)

Little,Brown

Portrays the life of the fugitive slave, abolitionist, and diplomat, paying attention to the meaning of freedom in America during the Civil War era and Douglass' significance to the struggle for human and civil rights

Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglas

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown & Co

This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present.

BLACK ODYSSEY

Vintage

This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present.

Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery

A biography of the slave and preacher who, believing that God wanted him to free the slaves, led a major revolt in 1831

Nat Turner

Bisson, Terry

GROLIER

Frederick Douglass (Black Americans of Achievement)

A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the early nineteenth century

Teen & Young Adult

Russell, Sharman Apt

Biographies

Chelsea House Pub

Traces the life of the American singer and actress, tells how she got her start at the Cotton Club, and discusses her efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement

Lena Horne (Black Americans of Achievement)

Arts & Photography

Palmer, Leslie

Music

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