Book section · January 1, 2022
This chapter analyzes the early history of New York’s Harlem, from its Dutch beginnings to its status as an iconic symbol of Black urban modernity in the 1920s. Drawing upon the biographies of W. E. B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, and George S. Schuyler, and with ...
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Book section · 2005
Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical and cultural forces that have shaped African American writing. - Publisher. ...
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Book section · 2005
Includes more than six hundred A-to-Z entries which provide concise information on particular poems, poets, and subjects which have contributed to this literary form. ...
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