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

Marks, Carole; Edkins, Diana

 
9780609600962: The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0609600966 ISBN 13: 9780609600962
Verlag: Crown Publications, 1999

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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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

<b>Carole Marks</b> is a professor of sociology and the director of Black America Studies at the University of Delaware. She is a former fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and the author of Farewell, We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration as well as A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore. She lives in Newark, Delaware.<br><br><b>Diana Edkins</b> is a curator of photographic collections and exhibitions. Known for her exacting eye and thorough knowledge of photographic imagery, she coauthored The Power of Style and was the photographic editor for On the Edge: The First One Hundred Years of Vogue. Among other projects, she is currently the archivist for the Barnes Foundation. She lives in Westfield, New Jersey.

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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<br><br>"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."        <br>--From the Introduction<br><br>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
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0609600966
ISBN 13 
9780609600962
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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