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Negro Life in New York's Harlem
Author | : Wallace Thurman |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2017-10-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780265590485 |
Excerpt from Negro Life in New York's Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section The tenement houses in this vicinity are dark ened dungheaps, festering with poverty-stricken and crime-ridden stepchildren of nature. This is the edge of Harlem's slum district; Fifth Avenue is its board-walk. Push carts line the curbstone, dirty push carts manned by dirtier hucksters, selling fly-specked vegetables and other cheap commodities. Evil faces leer at you from doorways and windows. Brutish men elbow you out of their way, dreary. Looking women scowl at and curse children playing on the sidewalk. That is Harlem's Fifth Avenue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Negro Life in New York's Harlem
Author | : Wallace Thurman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Becoming African Americans
Author | : Clare Corbould |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2009-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674053656 |
In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency for some decades. Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Following the great migration of black southerners to northern cities after World War I, the search for roots and for meaningful affiliations became subjects of debate and display in a growing black public sphere. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. In plays, pageants, dance, music, film, literature, and the visual arts, they aimed to give stature and solidity to the American black community through a new awareness of the African past and the international black world. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.
The New Negro
Author | : Alain Locke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Author | : Roy DeCarava |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Told through the eyes of the grandmotherly Sister Mary Bradley, this is a heartwarming description of life in Harlem.
The Blacker the Berry
Author | : Wallace Thurman |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486461343 |
A source of controversy upon its 1929 publication, this novel was the first to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. The author, an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers insightful reflections of the era's mood and spirit in an enduringly relevant examination of racial, sexual, and cultural identity.
Plays of Negro Life
Author | : Alain Locke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
"The drama of negro life is developing primarily because a native American drama is in process of evolution. Thus, although it heralds the awakening of the dormant dramatic gifts of the Negro folk temperament and has meant the phenomenal rise within a decade's span of a Negro drama and a possible Negro Theatre, the significance is if anything more national than racial. For pioneering genius in the development of the native American drama, such as Eugene O'Neill, Ridgley Torrence and Paul Green, now sees and recognizes the dramatically undeveloped potentialities of Negro life and folkways as a promising province of native idioms and source materials in which a developing national drama can find distinctive new themes, characteristic and typical situations, authentic atmosphere. The growing number of successful and representative plays of this type form a valuable and significant contribution to the theatre of today and open intriguing and fascinating possibilities for the theatre of tomorrow"-- Introduction.
Beloved Harlem
Author | : William H. Banks, Jr. |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2010-07-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307514072 |
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some of the best essays, short stories, and novel excerpts inspired by the diversity of Harlem life, from the early twentieth century to the new millennium. The days and nights of black Manhattan come alive in the words of historically famous writers like W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, Ossie Davis, and Toni Morrison, along with the works of brilliant newcomers to the neighborhood, including Brian Keith Jackson’s witty examination of identity politics in The Queen of Harlem and Rosemarie Robatham’s “Dreaming in Harlem,” a moving tale about a woman at the edge of society who finds sanctuary with a stranger. From renaissance through tough times to revitalization, this triumphant homage gives Harlem the historical perspective it so rightly deserves. Beloved Harlem is a welcome addition to the libraries of readers who are either already in love with Harlem or ready to take the fall.