Anti-Racism Resources: Harlem Renaissance

Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa.  Harlem is Nowhere:  A Journey to the Mecca of Black America.  Little, Brown and Company, 2011.  Spec Coll (F128.68 H3 R48 2011)

Hughes, Langston.  The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.  Spec Coll (PS3515 .U274 W4 1926)

Hughes, Langston.  The Big Sea:  an Autobiography.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.  Spec Coll (PS 3515 .U274 Z5 1940)

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem.  On the Shoulders of Giants:  My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance.  Simon & Schuster 2007.  Andrews (GV884 .A24 A32 2007)

Davidson, Bruce.  Time of Change:  Civil Rights Photographs 1961 - 1965.  St. Ann's Press, 2002.  Spec Coll Oversize (TR647 .D375 A4 2002)

Du Boise, W.E.B.  The Gift of Black Folk:  the Negroes in the Making of America.  Oxford University Press, 2007.  E Campus (E185 .D83 2007)

Du Boise, W.E.B.  Black Folk Then and Now:  An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race.  Oxford University Press, 2007.  E Campus (HT1581 .D75 2007)

Stewart, Jeffrey C.  The New Negro:  the Life of Alain Locke.  Oxford University Press, 2018.  E Campus (E185 .97 L79 S83 2018)

McKay, Claude.  Home to Harlem.  Northeastern University Press, 2007.  E Campus (PS3525 .A24785 H6 1987)

Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse.  JB. Lippincott Company, 1938.  Spec Coll (BL2490 .H88 1938)

Hurston, Zora Neale.  Barracoon:  the Story of the Last 'Black Cargo.'  Amistad (Harper Collins Imprint) 2018.  ECampus (E444.L49 H87 2018)

Hurston, Zora Neale.  Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick:  Stories from the Harlem Renaissance.  Forward by Tayari Jones; Introduction by Genevieve West.  Amistad (Harper Collins Imprint), 2020. ECampus (PS3515.U789 H58 2020)

Hurston, Zora Neale.  Moses:  Man of the Mountain.  J.B. Lippincott Company, 1939.  Spec Coll (PS3515.U789 H87 1939)

Walker, Alice.  In Search of our Mothers' Gardens:  Womanist Prose.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.  Spec Coll (PS3573.A425 Z467)

Taylor, Yuval.  Zora and Langston:  a Story of Friendship and Betrayal.  W.W. Norton and Company, 2019.  ECampus (PS3515 .U789 Z93 2019)

Goeser, Caroline.  Picturing the New Negro:  Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity.  University of Kansas Press, 2007.  E Campus (NC961.7 .A37 G64 2007)

Hills, Patricia.  Painting Harlem Modern: the Art of Jacob Lawrence.  University of California Press, 2009.  E Campus (ND237.L29 H55 2009)

Wardlaw, Alvia J.  Something All Our Own: the Grant Hill Collection of African American Art.  Duke University Press, 2004.  E Campus Folio (N6538 .N5 H55 2004)

Wheatley, Phillis.  Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley: a Native African and a Slave.  Also, Poems by a Slave.  Issac Knapp, 1838.  Spec Coll Rare Book (PS866 .W5 1838)

Lewis, David Levering.  When Harlem was in Vogue.  Knopf, 1981.  Spec Coll (NX511 .N4 L48 1981)

Davidson, Bruce.  Time of Change:  Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965.  St. Ann's Press, 2002.  Spec Coll Oversize (TR647 .D375 A4 2002)

Hughes, Langston.  Fight for Freedom:  the Story of the NAACP.  Norton, 1962.  Spec Coll (E185.5 .N276 H8 1962)

Hughes, Langston.  Black Misery.  Paul S. Eriksson, 1969.  Spec Coll (PS3515 .U274 B5 1969)

Hughes, Langston.  One-Way Ticket:  Illustrated by Jacob Lawrence.  Knopf, 1949.  Spec Coll (PS3515 .U274 O5 1949)

Hughes, Langston.  Poet of the People (image - not processed)

Hughes, Langston.  Laughing to Keep from Crying.  Holt, 1952.  Spec Coll (PZ3 .H87313)

Hughes, Langston.  Something in Common, and Other Stories.  Hill and Wang, 1963.  Spec Coll (PS3515 .U274 S65 1963)

Hughes, Langston.  Not Without Laughter.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1933.  Spec Coll (PS 3515 .U274 N6 1933)

Robeson, Paul.  Here I Stand.  Othello Associates, 1958.  Spec Coll (E185.97 .R62 1958)

Hughes, Langston.  Simply Heavenly (playbill). Spec Coll (to be processed)

Hughes, Langston.  Shakespeare in Harlem (playgram).  Spec Coll (to be processed)

Hughes, Langston.  Tambourines to Glory.  John Day Publishers, 1958.  Spec Coll (PS3515 .U274 T36 1958)

Hughes, Langston.  Shakespeare in Harlem (with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer).  Alfred A. Knopf, 1942 (First Edition).  Spec Coll (PS3515 .U274 S5 1942)

Sissle, Noble and Eubie Blake.  Shuffle Along.  Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2018. Score (M2.3 .U6R4 v. 85)

Barton, Betsy.  As Love is Deep.  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1957.  Spec Coll (CT275 .B476 B3 1957)

Wood, Charles Erskine Scott.  Heavenly Discourse.  Vanguard Press, The New Masses, 1927.  Spec Coll (PS3545 .O465 H4 1927)

Wood, Charles Erskine Scott.  The Beautiful Wedding.  Grabhorn Press, 1929.  Spec Coll (3545 .O465 B4 1929)

Guillen, Nicolas.  Cuba Libre:  Poems.  Anderson & Ritchie:  The Ward Ritchie Press, 1944.  Spec Coll Rare Book (PQ7389 .G84 S56 1948)

Jeffers, Robinson.  Themes in my Poems.  Book Club of California, 1956.  Spec Coll Oversize (PS3519 .E27 T45)

Bennett, Melba Berry.  The Stone Mason of Tor House:  the Life and Work of Robinson Jeffers. W. Ritchie Press, 1966.  Fullertn (PS3519 .E27 Z572)

Bontemps, Arna (edited by Charles H. Nichols).  Arna Bontemps- Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967.  Paragon House, 1990.  Spec Coll (PS3503.O474 Z486 1990)

Hughes, Langston.  Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.  Knopf, 1961. Spec Coll (PS3515 .U274 A8 1961)

Hughes, Langston.  Famous Negro Music Makers:  Illustrated with Photos by Langston Hughes.  Dodd, Mead, 1955.  Spec Coll (ML3556 .H9 1955)

Hughes, Langston.  Shadows in the Sun: Eleven Poems for Voice and Piano. General Music Pub. Co., 1971.  Spec Coll Oversize (M1621 .R37 S53 1971)

Hughes, Langston.  The Negro Speaks of Rivers.  Leeds Music Corp., 1949.  Spec Coll Oversize (M1621 .S956 N44 1949)

Morrison, Toni.  Jazz.  Knopf, 1992.  Spec Coll (PS3563 .O8749 J38 1992)

Johnson, James Weldon.  God's Trombones:  Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Penguin Books, 2008.  ECampus (PS3519.O2625 G6 2008)

Lomax, Alan and Raoul Abdul.  3000 Years of Black Poetry:  An Anthology.  Dodd, Mead, 1970.  Spec Coll (PN6109.7 .L6 1970)

Wright, Richard.  Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.  Spec Coll (PS3545 .R815 N3 1940b)

Foster, Stephen, Editor.  Dynamo.  May-June, 1935, Vol. 2, no 1: A Journal of Revolutionary Poetry.  Dynamo, 1935.  Spec Coll (HX1 .D9 1935)

Singer, John, Editor.  Million: New Left Writing.  William Maclellan, 1943.  Spec Coll (PN6071 .R25 M455 1943)

The Old Line, International Literary Issue.  Vol. 12, No. 6 (April 1943).  University of Maryland, 1943.  Spec Coll Oversize (PN6010 .5 .O53 1943)

Cullen, Countee.  On These I Stand: an Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen.  Harper & Brothers, 1947.  E Campus (PS3505 .U287 A6 1947)