The Harlem Renaissance: A Selected Bibliography

This is a representative list of the many books available in the Prince George's County Memorial Library System on the Harlem Renaissance, the black cultural movement that reverberated throughout New York and beyond during the 1920s. Included here are titles of books about the social, political, and literary figures of the era, as well as titles of novels, and poetry and short story collections by writers of the period.

GENERAL STUDIES

• 974.71 A
  Anderson, Jervis. This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982.
• T810.009 B
  Bontemps, Arna Wendell. Harlem Renaissance Remembered. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972.
• 700.9747 H
  Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
• 700.9747 H
  Huggins, Nathan Irvin, ed. Voices from the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• T700.899 K
  Kellner, Bruce. Harlem Renaissance: Historical Dictionary for the Era. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
• 700.8 L
  Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Penquin Books, 1997.
• 700.899 W
  Watson, Steven. Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995.

ARTS

• T700.89 B
  Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.
• 780.92
  Ellington C
  Collier, James Lincoln. Duke Ellington. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
• 780.92 Robeson D
  Duberman, Martin B. Paul Robeson. New York: Knopf, 1988.
• 704.03 H
  Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem/Abrams, 1987.
• 974.71 H
  Haskins, Jim. Cotton Club. New York: Random House, 1977.
• 741.6092 Douglas K
  Kirschke, Amy Helene. Aaron Douglas: Art, Race and the Harlem Renaissance. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
• 704.03 R
  Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance. London: Hayward Gallery, Institute of International Visual Arts; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
• 780.92 R
  Rose, Al. Eubie Blake. New York: Schirmer Books, 1979.
• 780.89 S
  Spencer, Jon Michael. New Negroes and Their Music: The Success of the Harlem Renaissance. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,1997.
• 779.2 W
  Willis-Braithwaite, Deborah. VanDerZee, Photographer, 1886-1983. New York: H.N. Abrams,1993.

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STUDIES

• 810.9A
  African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance. Dover, MA: Majority Press, 1991.
• B Garvey C
  Cronon, Edmund David. Black Moses: The Story of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.
• 305.89607 G
  Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. New York: Atheneum, 1968.
• 305.89607 J
  Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. 1930. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1991.
• 071.3 V
  Voices of a Black Nation: Political Journalism in the Harlem Renaissance. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1973.
• B Father Divine W
  Watts, Jill. God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

LITERATURE - STUDIES

• 810.9 B
  Bloom, Harold, ed. Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Chelsea House, 1995.
• 818.52 B
  Bloom, Harold, ed. Black American Prose Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Chelsea House, 1994.
• 810.9 H
  Harris, Trudier and Thadious Davis, ed. Afro-American Writers: The Harlem Renaissance to 1940. Detroit: Gale, 1987.
  810.9 P
  Perry, Margaret. Silence to the Drums: A Survey of the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976.
• 810.9 R
  Roses, Lorraine Elena and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945. New York: G.K. Hall, 1990.
• T810.8 W
  Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.
• T810.9 W
  Wintz, Cary D. Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940. Seven volumes. New York: Garland, 1996.
• 810.9 W
  Wintz, Cary D. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance. Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1988.

LITERATURE - WORKS

• 811.52 Brown
  Brown, Sterling. Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.
• Fiction C
  Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• 811.52 Cullen
  Cullen, Countee. My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen. New York: Doubleday/Anchor, 1991.
• Fiction F
  Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Chinaberry Tree. 1931. Reprint. New York: G.K. Hall, 1995.
• Fiction F
  Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Comedy, American Style. 1933. Reprint. College Park, MD: McGrath, 1969.
• Fiction F
  Fauset, Jessie Redmon. Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral. 1929. Reprint. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.
• Fiction F
  Fauset, Jessie Redmon. There Is Confusion. 1924. Reprint. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.
• Fiction F
  Fisher, Rudolph. City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1987.
• Mystery F
  Fisher, Rudolph. Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem. 1932. Reprint. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
• Fiction F
  Fisher, Rudolph. Walls of Jericho. 1928. Reprint. New York: Arno, 1969.
• 810.8 H
  Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
• 818.52 Hughes
  Hughes, Langston. Big Sea: An Autobiography. 1940. Reprint. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
• 811.52 Hughes
  Hughes, Langston. Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Vintage, 1995.
• 818.52 Hughes
  Hughes, Langston. Langston Hughes Reader. New York: G. Braziller, 1958.
• Fiction H
  Hughes, Langston. Not Without Laughter. 1930. Reprint. New York: Collier/Macmillan, 1969.
• Fiction H
  Hughes, Langston. Ways of White Folks. 1934. Reprint. New York: Vintage, 1962.
• Fiction H
  Hurston, Zora Neale. Jonah's Gourd Vine. 1934. Reprint. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.
• 398.2 H
  Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. 1935. Reprint. New York: Harper, 1990.
• Fiction H
  Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. 1937. Reprint. New York: Perennial, 1990.
• 811.52 Johnson
  Johnson, James Weldon. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. 1927. Reprint. New York: Penguin, 1955.
• Fiction L
  Larsen, Nella. Quicksand; and, Passing. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986.
• 305.89607 L
  Locke, Alain. New Negro. New York: Boni, 1925.
• 810.8 P
  Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. New York: Penguin, 1994.
• 811.5208 S
  Shadowed Dreams: Women's Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
• Fiction S
  Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
• 812.508 W
  Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.

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"T" before the call number indicates the book is part of the Sojourner Truth Room research collection at the Oxon Hill Library and is available to use there only.

The Sojourner Truth Room consists of more than 9,000 cataloged items on all aspects of African-American history and culture, many of which are rare or out of print; as well as periodicals; some sheet music; pictures; posters; pamphlets; clippings; and bibliographies. Among the rare first editions are some by Harlem Renaissance writers, including Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine.