A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on the Harlem Renaissance, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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African American Odyssey, an online exhibit from the Library of Congress with pictures of original documents and commentary, with sections on Slavery; Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period; Abolition; The Civil War; Reconstruction; Booker T. Washington Era; World War I and Postwar Society; Depression, New Deal, and World War II; Civil Rights
Web site on the African-American Community in Harlem 1900-1940 from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library
The Black Renaissance in Washington, 1920-1930s contains biographies of 26 important African Americans and book lists
A brief guide to the Harlem Renaissance from the Academy of American Poets
Reprint of the influential Survey Graphic Harlem Number, from 1925 which includes articles on the new scene in Harlem as of 1925, by many names associated with the Harlem Renaissance. A project of the Univ. of Virginia electronic text center
An introduction to the Harlem Renaissance written as an introduction to materials at the British Library, by Jean Kemble. 1997
An introduction and timeline for the Harlem Renaissance, from Dr. Paul Reuben's PAL web site
Anderson, Paul Allen. A review of Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. (Duke Univ. Press, 2001) Reviewer Eric Porter writes "In this important book, Paul Allen Anderson explores the development of ideas about black music during a period that witnessed its growing visibility and impact on American culture and society." African American Review, Spring, 2003
Butler, Robert. A review of Butler's Contemporary African American Fiction: The Open Journey. (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1998) Covers Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Native Son (1940), Invisible Man (1952), The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), Faith and the Good Thing (1974), Flight to Canada (1976), Song of Solomon (1977), and Dessa Rose (1986); and Parable of the Sower (1993). According to the reviewer, "in traveling again over the familiar terrain of these nine more or less canonical works, Robert Butler produces something of considerable value for understanding contemporary, as well as the last century's, writing, namely, a challenge to older interpretations of African American narrative informed by a revised conception of how literary tradition is formed in kinship and difference." In African American Review, Winter, 2000 reviewed by John M. Reilly
Francini, Antonella. "Sonnet vs. Sonnet." On the development of the sonnet by Harlem Renaissance poets. In RSA 14 (2003)
Gallego, Mar. A review of Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual Strategies. (Hamburg: Lit Verlag Munster, 2003) Reviewed in African American Review, Winter, 2004 by Zhou Yupei
Gosselin, Adrienne Johnson. "Beyond the Harlem Renaissance: The Case for Black Modernist Writers." Says that "American literary history views the Harlem Renaissance as an aesthetic movement contemporaneous with, but separate from, Euro-American Modernism," recommends theorizing American modernism. Orig. in Modern Language Studies, no date supplied
Janken, Kenneth R. On the importance of Europe and especially France in African American intellectual life between the two world wars. "African American and Francophone black intellectuals during the Harlem Renaissance," in Historian, Spring, 1998
Musser, Judith. "African American Women's Short Stories in the Harlem Renaissance: Bridging a Tradition." On stories originally published in The Crisis and Opportunity. MELUS, Summer, 1998
Stuart, Andrea. "The Harlem Renaissance in the twenties produced a wealth of black talent. But what was its legacy and who did it really benefit?" New Statesman, June 27, 1997 (removed from findarticles.com)
Yarborough, Richard. "In the Realm of the Imagination": Afro-American Literature and the American Canon," in ADE Bulletin (MLA) 078 (Summer 1984): 35-39
A PBS roundtable on the Harlem Renaissance poses several provocative questions to participants Jeffrey C. Stewart, George Mason University; William Drummond, Univ of California at Berkeley; and Richard Powell, Duke University, 2/20/98
A newsletter reviews Harlem Renaissance reference works and anthologies Includes lists of works included in 15 widely used anthologies. By Randolph Fisher
A very extensive bibliographic listing of Harlem Renaissance resources, from Collaborative Bibliographies at Georgetown Univ. (generated from the teachers and scholars who participate in the Teaching the American Literatures discussion list)
Teaching resources for Black History month from publisher Gale Group has biographies of over 50 African Americans, and other teaching materials
A thorough list of web resources for African American writers and literature
"Children's book guide for Black History Month," Essence, Feb, 1994 by Barbara Thrash Murphy
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