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

Marks, Carole; Edkins, Diana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609600966 ISBN 13: 9780609600962

Publisher: Crown Publications, 1999

Synopsis

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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About the Author

<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.

From the Inside Flap

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Crown Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609600966
• ISBN 13: 9780609600962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272