The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance - Hardcover

Marks, Carole; Edkins, Diana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609600966 ISBN 13: 9780609600962

Verlag: Crown Publications, 1999

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Book by Carole Marks Diana edkins

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An enlightening overview of the Harlem Renaissance explores the literary and artistic movement that pioneered a new image of African-American culture and the diverse individuals who played key roles in it, including Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Josephine Baker, James Weldon Johnson, and Walter White. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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ker -- Walter White -- Zora Neale Hurston -- A'Lelia Walker -- James Weldon Johnson -- Ethel Waters -- Louis Armstrong -- Bessie Smith -- Alberta Hunter -- Jessie Fauset -- Nella Larsen -- Florence Mills -- Duke Ellington -- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson -- Carl Van Vechten -- Langston Hughes -- Dorothy West

"The Power of Pride features seventeen of the most prominent men and women of the New Negro Renaissance. Alternately irreverent, racy, and painfully honest, they were unique: risk-takers in dangerous times, sophisticated salonières in an age of bourgeois provincialism, and experimenters who briefly managed to transcend race by immersing themselves in it."        
--From the Introduction

The Harlem Renaissance was an electrifying period during which huge numbers of African Americans threw off the shackles of discrimination, exploitation, and poverty in the South and moved north. Heady with the feeling of li

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• Verlag: Crown Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0609600966
• ISBN 13: 9780609600962
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272