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Details

Additional authors

1. Boyd, Herb, 1938-
2. Dodson, Howard

Description

1. xviii, 316 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

1. An anthology of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and other narratives provides a portrait of Harlem at diverse points in its history, from the early days through the Harlem Renaissance to the present day.

Subject

1. African Americans
2. American fiction > Women authors
3. American fiction > African American authors
4. Black author
5. New York (N.Y.) > History > Miscellanea
6. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History > Miscellanea
7. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Biography
8. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History > Miscellanea
9. American poetry > Women authors
10. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Miscellanea
11. American poetry > African American authors
12. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Miscellanea
13. New York (N.Y.) > Miscellanea
14. History
15. New York (State) > New York > Harlem
16. Biography
17. Trivia and miscellanea
18. New York (N.Y.) > Biography
19. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Biography

Genre/Form

1. American fiction – African American authors.
2. American poetry – African American authors.
3. American fiction – Women authors.
4. American poetry – Women authors
5. Trivia and miscellanea.
6. Biography.
7. History.

Contents

1. Home on the grange / by Alexander Hamilton -- The Afro-American Realty Company / by Gilbert Osofsky -- Boyhood in Harlem / by Thomas C. Fleming -- We return fighting / by David Levering Lewis -- The class struggle / by W.E.B. Du Bois -- Witness to the Harlem Renaissance / by James Weldon Johnson -- The Garvey movement / by John Henrik Clarke -- In his own words / by Marcus Garvey -- Springtime in Harlem / by Roi Ottley -- Harlem in the spotlight / by Hubert Harrison -- Ringtail / by Rudolph Fisher -- Nights at the Cotton Club / by Duke Ellington -- The Harlem Rens / by Arthur Ashe, Jr. -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / by Helene Johnson -- On "Gloria Swanson" / by Richard Bruce Nugent -- The Abyssinian Baptist Church / by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -- The Harlem Fox / by J. Raymond Jones -- Our Harlem / by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee -- Upon arriving in Harlem / by Gordon Parks, Sr. -- Macbeth in Harlem / by Wendy Smith -- Zora / by Laurence Holder -- 409 Edgecombe, baseball and Madame St. Clair / by Catherine Butler Jones -- 116th Street / by Ann Petry -- Life in Black and white / by Sidney Poitier -- Hostess of Harlem / by Claude McKay -- A toast to Harlem / by Langston Hughes -- If you ain't got heart, you ain't got nada / by Piri Thomas -- Homegirls on St. Nicholas Avenue / by Sonia Sanchez -- Harlem background / by Harold Cruse -- Lorraine Hansberry : on time! / by John Oliver Killens -- Fifth Avenue uptown : a letter from Harlem / by James Baldwin.
2. Minister Malcolm X / by Malcolm X -- Castro in Harlem / by Maya Angelou -- Harlem / by Henry Dumas -- Memories of a sixties girlhood : the Harlem I love / by Michele Wallace -- Cotton comes to Harlem / by Chester Himes -- My Harlem / by Tonya Bolden -- Returning to a Harlem I never left / by Eddy Harris -- Harlem haiku : a scrapbook / by Jabari Asim -- Passing Strivers' Row / by Grace Edwards -- Reflections on the metro north, winter, 1990 / by Willie Perdomo -- Making Harlem my business / by Dorothy Pitman Hughes -- Chris Rock at the Apollo / by Cintra Wilson -- Ethnic cleansing comes to Harlem / by Mamadou Chinyelu -- Unforgettable summer for Harlem Little League / by Howie Evans -- Harlem is my heart / by Yemise Cameron -- Harlem reader vignettes / by Herb Boyd.

Call number

1. Sc D 04-166

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. The Harlem reader : a celebration of New York's most famous neighborhood, from the renaissance years to the twenty-first century / edited by Herb Boyd ; foreword by Howard Dodson.

Publisher

1. New York : Three Rivers Press, [2003]

Edition

1. First Edition

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Connect to:

1. Sample text
2. Contributor biographical information
3. Publisher description

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Boyd, Herb, 1938- editor.
2. Dodson, Howard, writer of foreword.

LCCN

1. 2002151280

ISBN

1. 1400046815 (pbk.)
2. 9781400046812 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc D 04-166