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Harlem Renaissance

Online Books, Magazine Articles, and other Resources

Bronze: A Book of Verse / by Georgia Douglas Johnson ; with an introduction by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois.

Boston : B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930553~S2

Cane / by Jean Toomer ; with a foreword by Waldo Frank.

New York : Liveright, [1951]

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930529~S2

The Chinaberry Tree : A Novel of American Life / by Jessie Fauset.

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930516~S2

There is Confusion / by Jessie Redmon Fauset.

New York : Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1924.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930519~S2

Constab Ballads / by Claude McKay.

London : Watts & Co., 1912.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930537~S2

Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms / by Jean Toomer.

Chicago : Lakeside Press, 1931.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930527~S2

Harlem Mecca of the New Negro (Special Issue of Survey Graphic, March 1, 1925, Volume 53, Issue 11)

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8937827~S2

Description from: Oxford African American Studies Center. Retrieved 27 Sep. 2021, from

https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-78648

“In 1925 preeminent Harlem Renaissance figure Alain Locke was given the editorial reins to a special edition of influential progressive review The Survey Graphic. Drawing on “the greatest Negro community the world has known,” as he described his environs, Locke—Rhodes Scholar, philosopher, literary critic—was able to commission many of the movement’s most enduring names for his project: historian Arthur Schomburg, poet Claude Mackey, essayists W. E. B. Du Bois and Charles S. Johnson, and the artist Winold Reiss, to name a few. Titled Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, the ninety-two-page publication contained essays, poems, and occasional artwork, and brought heightened national exposure to the intellectual and cultural frenzy of black New York. Locke would continue his exhibition of Harlem in The New Negro: An Interpretation of Negro Life, published the same year. Considered a seminal anthology of the Harlem Renaissance, The New Negro was a book-length successor to Locke’s Survey Graphic effort.”

Contents: I. The greatest Negro community in the world. Harlem ; Enter the new Negro / Alain Locke ; The making of Harlem / James Weldon Johnson ; Black workers and the city / Charles S. Johnson ; The South lingers on / Rudolph Fisher ; The tropics in New York / W.A. Domingo ; Harlem types : portraits / Winold Reiss -- II. The Negro expresses himself. The Black man brings his gifts / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois ; Youth speaks: poems. Harlem life : seven poems / Countée Cullen ; Lady, lady / Anne Spencer ; The Black finger / Angelina Grimke ; Poems. Like a strong tree ; Russian cathedral ; White houses / Claude McKay ; Song of the son / Jean Toomer ; Poems / Langston Hughes ; Jazz at home / J.A. Rogers ; Negro art and America / Albert C. Barnes ; The Negro digs up his past / Arthur A. Schomburg ; The art of the ancestors / A.L. ; Heritage / Countée Cullen -- III. Black and white, studies in race contacts. The dilemma of social pattern / Melville J. Herskovits ; The rhythm of Harlem / Konrad Bercovici ; Color lines / Walter F. White ; The harvest of race prejudice / Kelly Miller ; Breaking through / Eunice Roberta Hunton ; Four portraits of Negro women / Winold Reiss ; The double task : the struggle of Negro women for sex and race emancipation / Elise Johnson McDougald ; Ambushed in the city : the grim side of Harlem / Winthrop D. Lane ; The church and the Negro spirit / George E. Haynes -- Editorials -- The Negro in print : a selected list of magazines and books by and about Negroes.

The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems / by Georgia Douglas Johnson ; with an introduction by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Boston : The Cornhill Company, 1918.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930554~S2

Jacob Lawrence: the Migration Series / edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner ; introductory essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; essays by Lonnie G. Bunch III and Spencer R. Crew, Patricia Hills, Elizabeth Steele and Susana M. Halpine, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Diane Tepfer, and Deborah Willis ; chronology by Stephen Bennett Phillips.

Washington, D.C. : The Rappahannock Press in association with the Phillips Collection, 1993.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930580~S2
(Freely available catalog of an artist associated with the Harlem Renaissance and mentioned in the course description, though he was born in 1917 so not really there in the '20s...)

Summary: “Through a series of paintings, Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African-Americans who moved to the North in search for a better life. Lawrence's parents were among those who migrated between 1916-1919, considered the first wave of the migration. The Great Migration was the largest movement of black people since slavery removed Africans to the Americas. The paintings are accompanied by captions that combine history, sociology, and poetry. Documents Lawrence's cycle of 60 paintings, collectively titled "The Migration of the Negro," painted in 1940-1941, now in the collections of The Phillips Collection and The Museum of Modern Art. Lawrence's original narrative text accompanies the color plates; his 1993 revised text appears in the checklist.

Source of Description: Description based on print version and online resource, viewed September 13, 2021.

Not Without Laughter / by Langston Hughes.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930532~S2

Passing / by Nella Larsen.

New York ; London : Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930526~S2

Plum Bun / Jessie Redmon Fauset (author of "There is confusion").

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1929?]

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930520~S2

Plunging into the Very Depths of the Souls of Our People: the life and art of Aaron Douglas / by Cheryl R. Ragar.

[Lawrence, Kansas] : University of Kansas : KU ScholarWorks, 2008.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930557~S2

(Doctoral dissertation on Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas)

Quicksand / by Nella Larsen.

New York ; London : Alfred A. Knopf, 1928.

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930522~S2

Women of the Early Harlem Renaissance: African American women Writers 1900-1922 / by Amardeep Singh. Lehigh University: Lehigh, Pennsylvania, [2018 -]

https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b8930555~S2

(Digital collection, with critical essays, thematic mapping, etc. by a Lehigh University professor)