The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
10 best books like The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (David Levering Lewis): The Debate on the Constitution, Part 2: Federalist and Anti-Federalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: January to August 1788, Infants of the Spring, The New Negro, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays, The Mountaintop, To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America, Prose and Poetry: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets / The Red Badge of Courage / Stories, Sketches, Journalism, The Black Riders / War Is Kind, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
In this Library of America volume (and its companion) is captured, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign.
Part Two gathers collected press polemics and private commentaries from January to August...
| Author | Wallace Thurman |
| ISBN | 1874509611 |
It's 1920s Harlem, and man, the joint is jumpin'. Folks are coming and going and everything's copacetic as long as the gin keeps flowing. This is the scene Stephen Jorgenson dives into when he arrives from Canada for the first time. He is taken to "The Niggerati Manor, " an apartment building in Harlem...
| Author | Alain LeRoy Locke |
| ISBN | 0684838311 |
From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society.
With stunning works by seminal black voices...
| Author | James Baldwin |
| ISBN | 1883011523 |
Though one of the giants of 20th-century American letters he's often been marginalized, relegated to the ghetto of writers about race. This perception of Baldwin solely as a black writer--and thus one whose interest lies primarily in the sociological or the documentary--undercuts the real importance...
| Author | Katori Hall |
| ISBN | 1408147033 |
Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate, “I may not get there with...
| Author | Rebecca Walker |
| ISBN | 0385472625 |
Determined to extend the boundaries of feminism to embrace social, political, and economic equality for all humanity, these twenty-one exciting young activists and thinkers recast the concepts of feminism to reflect their own personal experiences and beliefs. Inspired by activist and writer...
| Author | Lawrence W. Levine |
| ISBN | 0674390776 |
In this wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century & covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera & vaudeville, America's leading cultural historian demonstrates how variable & dynamic...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0940450178 |
This Library of America volume shows why Stephen Crane has come to be recognized as one of the most innovative and diversely talented writers of his generation, even though he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. This comprehensive collection includes all his most accomplished and best-known...
| Author | Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0195067851 |
In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published Contending Forces, whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does indeed contain examples of black awareness...
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
| Author | Justine Cassell |
| ISBN | 0262531682 |
Girls and computer games--and the movement to overcome the stereotyping that dominates the toy aisles.
Many parents worry about the influence of video games on their children's lives. The game console may help to prepare children for participation in the digital world, but at the same time...
| Author | John Keats |
| ISBN | 0192819313 |
I felt so 'unfinished' to touch the last page (the last poem, to be more exact) of this bittersweet book. Love and longing, expectation and disappointment, hope and enlightenment, all of which blend in these beautifully written poems. Here is my favorite part in Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn':
"Ah,...
في الرابع من كانون الثاني عام 1960 توفي البير كامو عن ستة وأربعين عاماً، ولم يكن قد مر على منحه جائزة نوبل للأدب إلا سنتان، فقد اصطدمت السيارة التي كان ذاهباً...
| Author | Jessie Redmon Fauset |
| ISBN | 0807009199 |
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and prolific authors, Plum Bun is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she believes...
| Author | Nellie Y. McKay |
| ISBN | 0393977781 |
Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.
This landmark anthology includes...
I can’t think of a life more singularly suited for the large screen. But if the morass of pusillanimity otherwise known as Hollywood has anything to do about it, I’m not going to hold my breath. So for now we’ll just have to make do with Duberman’s biography. And lucky us. With this captivating...
| Author | John Cottingham |
| ISBN | 0631186271 |
From ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today, Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition.
In 100 substantial and carefully chosen extracts, the volume covers all the main branches of philosophy...
A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when he was just twenty-four.
From the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) he offers in this first book-"I am a Negro: / Black as night is black, / Black the depths of my Africa"-Hughes spoke directly, intimately,...
| Author | Zora Neale Hurston |
| ISBN | 1569247439 |
A delightful collection portraying the energy and dynamism of black culture includes the noted author's early works and follows her evolution into a literary genius and contains such stories as Muttsy, Isis, Spunk, and more.
These eight stories - which include intense love stories, stories...
| Author | Nathan Irvin Huggins |
| ISBN | 0195063368 |
A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed...
| Author | Thomas Boswell |
| ISBN | 0140064699 |
I read this too long ago to remember the details. What I do recall was that it was well-written and packed with great stories. But that's beside the point.
I'm afraid my motives for writing this pseudo-quasi-non-review are all too transparent. It has little to do with the book itself aside from...
| Author | Jane Lazarre |
| ISBN | 0822320444 |
“I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.” She understands, she says—but he tells her, gently, that he doesn’t think so, that she can’t understand this completely because she is white. Beyond the...
Contents:
pt. 1. Six texts by Václav Havel --
Letter to Dr Gustáv Husák --
The power of the powerless --
Six asides about culture --
Politics and conscience --
Thriller --
An anatomy of reticence --
pt. 2. Sixteen texts for Václav Havel --
Catastrophe...
