Harlem Glory
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Harlem Glory
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Author : Claude McKay
language : en
Publisher: Charles Kerr
Release Date : 1990
Harlem Glory written by Claude McKay and has been published by Charles Kerr this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
Written in the late 1940s but unpublished till now, this superb portrayal of Black life during the Great Depression and the New Deal is virtually a sequel to the classic Home to Harlem. Mckay's vivid, warm evocations of the omnipresent numbers racket, all-night jazz parties and the whole exuberant and cacophonous clash of social movements and ideologies - Black nationalism and industrial unionism as well as incipient Muslim and other heterodox religious formations - provide the context for a fast-paced narrative of love, work, play and revolt in Black America during one of the most stirring periods in US history. Astutely sensitive to the extraordinary vitality and diversity of Black culture, and drawing on the author's experiences in the IWW and the extreme Left of the socialist movement, Harlem Glory reveals Claude McKay at his very best.
Harlem S Glory
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Author : Lorraine Elena Roses
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1996
Harlem S Glory written by Lorraine Elena Roses and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays about color and culture, prejudice and love, and feminine trials, dozens of African-American women writers--some famous, many just discovered--give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the twentieth century. In historical context, with special emphasis on matters of race and gender, are the words of luminaries like Zora Neale Hurston and Georgia Douglas Johnson as well as rare, previously unpublished writings by figures like Angelina Weld Grimké, Elise Johnson McDougald, and Regina Andrews, all culled from archives and arcane magazines. Editors Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph arrange their selections to reveal not just the little-suspected extent of black women's writing, but its prodigious existence beyond the cultural confines of New York City. Harlem's Glory also shows how literary creativity often coexisted with social activism in the works of African-American women. This volume is full of surprises about the power and diversity of the writers and genres. The depth, the wit, and the reach of the selections are astonishing. With its wealth of discoveries and rediscoveries, and its new slant on the familiar, all elegantly presented and deftly edited, the book will compel a reassessment of writing by African-American women and its place in twentieth-century American literary and historical culture.
Bound For Glory
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Author : Kerry Candaele
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Bound For Glory written by Kerry Candaele and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with African Americans categories.
A chronology of significant events in African-American history during the early 1900s.
Tambourines To Glory
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Author : Langston Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010-03-03
Tambourines To Glory written by Langston Hughes and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-03 with Fiction categories.
Finally available in trade paperback, Langston Hughes’s breezy parable of good and evil, friendship and betrayal, is an unforgettable portrait of 1950s Harlem and two women called to the pulpit for very different reasons. For every bustling jazz joint that opened in Korean War–era Harlem, a new church seemed to spring up. Tambourines to Glory introduces you to an unlikely team behind a church whose rock was the curb at 126th and Lenox. Essie Belle Johnson and Laura Reed live in adjoining tenement flats, adrift on public relief. Essie wants to somehow earn enough money to reunite with her daughter and provide her with a nice home; Laura loves young men, mink coats, and fine Scotch. On a day of inspiration, the friends decide to use a thrift-store tambourine and a layaway Bible to start a church. Their sidewalk services are a hit: Laura’s a natural street performer who loves the limelight, while Essie is a charismatic singer with a quiet spirituality. Before long they move to a thousand-seat theatre called the Tambourine Temple. The two women are joined in their ministering by Birdie Lee, the little-old-lady trap drummer who can work the congregation to a feverish pitch, and Deacon Crow-For-Day, an impassioned confessor. But then Laura falls for Buddy, a scam artist who suggests selling to the faithful lucky numbers from Scripture and bottles of tap water as “Holy Water from the Jordan.” Even with a Cadillac and piles of money from Laura, Buddy won’t stay faithful, igniting a crime of passion and betrayal. Harlem Moon Classics is proud to reintroduce readers of all generations to this sparkling gem from the canon of Langston Hughes.
Celibacies
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Author : Benjamin Kahan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-25
Celibacies written by Benjamin Kahan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this innovative study, Benjamin Kahan traces the elusive history of modern celibacy. Arguing that celibacy is a distinct sexuality with its own practices and pleasures, Kahan shows it to be much more than the renunciation of sex or a cover for homosexuality. Celibacies focuses on a diverse group of authors, social activists, and artists, spanning from the suffragettes to Henry James, and from the Harlem Renaissance's Father Divine to Andy Warhol. This array of figures reveals the many varieties of celibacy that have until now escaped scholars of literary modernism and sexuality. Ultimately, this book wrests the discussion of celibacy and sexual restraint away from social and religious conservatism, resituating celibacy within a history of political protest and artistic experimentation. Celibacies offers an entirely new perspective on this little-understood sexual identity and initiates a profound reconsideration of the nature and constitution of sexuality.
Cross Cultural Harlem
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Author : Sandhya Shukla
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-04
Cross Cultural Harlem written by Sandhya Shukla and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a global African diaspora, an early home for Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, an important Puerto Rican neighborhood, and a representative site of gentrification. How do we understand the power of a place with so many claims and identifications? Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other, even while Blackness remains crucial. Cross-Cultural Harlem reveals a dynamic of exchange that provokes a rethinking of spaces such as Black Harlem, El Barrio, and Italian Harlem. Cross-cultural encounters among African Americans, West Indians, Puerto Ricans, Jews, and Italians provide a story of multiplicity that challenges the framework of territorial enclaves. Shukla illuminates the historical processes that have shaped the diversity of Harlem, examining the many dimensions of its Blackness—Southern, African, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and more—as well as how white ethnicities have been constructed. Considering literary and historical examples such as Langston Hughes’s short story “Spanish Blood,” the career of the Italian American left-wing Harlem congressman Vito Marcantonio, and the autobiography of Puerto Rican–Cuban writer Piri Thomas, Shukla argues that cosmopolitanism and racial belonging need not be seen as contradictory. Cross-Cultural Harlem offers a vision of sustained dialogue to respond to the challenges of urban transformations and to affirm the future of Harlem as actual place and global symbol.
My Road To Salvation
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Author : John H. Anderson III
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2017-01-09
My Road To Salvation written by John H. Anderson III and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-09 with Poetry categories.
This is a spiritual journey that has taken place in my life over the course of over three decades. It is the struggles, tests of faith, and the essence of my soul on paper. So many young people today are disheartened about their future and their purpose and I want them to know that God is real and has a specific wonderful purpose for each of their lives. I am no better than anyone, so if He can change my life with a willing heart, He can do it for any and everyone who is willing. To God be the glory!
The Lives Times And Glory Days Of The Harlem Globetrotters 1946 1963
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Author : Dick Burdette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-01-12
The Lives Times And Glory Days Of The Harlem Globetrotters 1946 1963 written by Dick Burdette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with categories.
Through the hazy looking glass of myopic hindsight, the Harlem Globetrotters have long been perceived as a wholly orchestrated minstrel show: colorful, novel, slapstick, entertaining, most of all, timeless. They have always been, the thinking goes, what they are today: a traveling cartoon show. Handclapping, audience-participation fun for the whole family. A welcome, belly-laugh relief from the worrisome realities of everyday life. Like the circus, they come to town once a year, same time, same place, same script. Only the cast changes. But during their 1946-1963 glory years Americans and fans all the world revered them not only for their showmanship, but their amazing shooting, precision passing and dazzling ball handling.. In 1948, the 'Trotters laid legitimate claim to being the best basketball team in the world. They proved it on the court. On Feb. 19, 1948, before a Chicago Stadium crowd of 17,823, they beat 6-foot 10 George Mikan and the all-white Minneapolis Lakers 61-59. That same season, the Lakers won the professional American Basketball League championship. By 13 games ahead of their nearest rival. The following February 28, the 'Trotters did it again, this time 49-45 in front of 21,866 Chicago Stadium fans. A few months later, the Lakers would win the first-ever National Basketball Association- their first of five in six years -- en route to becoming the NBA's first dynasty. In 1950, the 'Trotters and the nation's best college All-Americans played an 18-game, coast -to-coast series billed as "The World Series of Basketball." The 'Trotters won 11 of the 18. Over the next several springs, they won 65 of 91 all-star games, all played before sellout crowds, including 36,256 in the Los Angeles Coliseum, at the time a new national attendance record; 31,000 in the Rose Bowl; and more than 20,000 in Madison Square Garden and the Chicago Stadium. By the time the annual college all-star series was discontinued in 1962, the 'Trotters had won 166 and lost only 44. This is the behind-the-scenes story, as told by , among others, men who lived it, including not only their unparalleled successes and zany antics on the court but what life was like after the lights went out and they walked off the court and became merely 12 black men touring segregated America on a bus.
Beloved Harlem
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Author : William H. Banks, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2010-07-07
Beloved Harlem written by William H. Banks, Jr. and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-07 with Fiction categories.
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some of the best essays, short stories, and novel excerpts inspired by the diversity of Harlem life, from the early twentieth century to the new millennium. The days and nights of black Manhattan come alive in the words of historically famous writers like W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, Ossie Davis, and Toni Morrison, along with the works of brilliant newcomers to the neighborhood, including Brian Keith Jackson’s witty examination of identity politics in The Queen of Harlem and Rosemarie Robatham’s “Dreaming in Harlem,” a moving tale about a woman at the edge of society who finds sanctuary with a stranger. From renaissance through tough times to revitalization, this triumphant homage gives Harlem the historical perspective it so rightly deserves. Beloved Harlem is a welcome addition to the libraries of readers who are either already in love with Harlem or ready to take the fall.
Harlem Renaissance Lives From The African American National Biography
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Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Harlem Renaissance Lives From The African American National Biography written by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham have selected 300 key biographical entries culled from the eight-volume African American National Biography, providing an authoritative who's who of this seminal period. Here readers will find engagingly written and authoritative articles on notable African Americans who made significant contributions to literature, drama, music, visual art, or dance, including such central figures as poet Langston Hughes, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, aviator Bessie Coleman, blues singer Ma Rainey, artist Romare Bearden, dancer Josephine Baker, jazzman Louis Armstrong, and the intellectual giant W. E. B. Du Bois. Also included are biographies of people like the Scottsboro Boys, who were not active within the movement but who nonetheless profoundly affected the artistic and political statements that came from Harlem Renaissance figures. The volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.