Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance (Introduction ; The Harlem Renaissance ; Harlem / Cary D. Wintz)
  • pt. II. To make a poet Black : literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Introduction / Cary D. Wintz
  • Langston Hughes / Arnold Rampersad
  • Countee Cullen / Lorenzo Thomas
  • Nella Larsen / George Hutchinson
  • Claude McKay / Tyrone Tillery
  • Zora Neale Hurston / M. Genevieve West
  • Richard Wright / Amritjit Singh)
  • pt. III. The jazz age : music and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance (Introduction / Cary D. Wintz
  • (Eubie Blake / Terry Waldo
  • Bessie Smith / Chip Deffaa
  • Louis Armstrong / Dan Morgenstern
  • Duke Ellington / Cary D. Wintz
  • Ethel Waters / Gene Jones)
  • pt. IV. Art and image in the Harlem Renaissance : the visual and performing arts (Introduction / Cary D. Wintz
  • Aaron Douglas / Amy Helene Kirschke
  • Jacob Lawrence / Alvia Wardlaw
  • Romare Bearden / Abdul Goler
  • Josephine Baker / Asli Tekinay)
  • pt. V. Art and politics : the Renaissance men of the Harlem Renaissance (Introduction / Cary D. Wintz
  • W.E.B. Du Bois / Kevin L. Gaines
  • James Weldon Johnson / Anne E. Carroll
  • Paul Robeson / Paul Finkelman)
  • pt. VI. The new Negro : politics and criticism in the Harlem Renaissance (Introduction / Cary D. Wintz
  • Marcus Garvey / Claudrena N. Harold
  • Alain Locke / Martha Jane Nadell
  • A. Philip Randolph / William H. Harris).