Remembering the Harlem Renaissance

Surveys of Black Literature from the 1930s and 1940s The Negro Genius: A New Appraisal of the Achievement of the American Negro in Literature and the Fine Arts (New York: Dodd, Mead Co., 1937), Benjamin Brawley * The Negro in American Fiction (New York: Atheneum, 1969), Sterling Brown * Negro Poetry and Drama (New York: Atheneum, 1969), Sterling Brown Phylon's Retrospective on the Harlem Renaissance, December 1950 Some Practical Observations: A Colloquy, Langston Hughes and the Editors of Phylon. * Criticism at Mid-Century, Ulysses Lee * Negro Poets, Then and Now, Arna Bontemps * The Van Vechten Revolution: Phylon Profile, XXII, George S. Schuyler * The Negro Writer-Shadow and Substance, J. Saunders Redding * Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension in Culture, Alain Locke * The Negro Writer: Pitfalls and Compensations, William Gardner Smith * New Poets, Margaret Walker The New Negro Thirty Years Afterward, edited by Rayford W. Logan, et al. (Washington: Howard University, Press, 1955) The Historical Setting of The New Negro , Rayford W. Logan * The New Negro Middle Class, E. Franklin Frazier * The New Negro in Literature (1925-1955), Sterling A. Brown * The New Negro and the New Deal, John Hope Franklin * The Negro Renaissance and Its Significance, Charles S. Johnson The Harlem Renaissance Remembered, edited by Arna Bontemps (New York, Dodd Mead and Company, 1972) The Awakening: A Memoir, Arna Bontemps * Under the Harlem Shadow: A Study of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, Hiroko Sato * Portrait of Wallace Thurman, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson * Zora Neale Hurston and the Eatonville Anthropology, Robert Hemenway * Charles S. Johnson: Entrepreneur of the Harlem Renaissance, Patrick J. Gilpin * Frank Horne and the Second Echelon Poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Ronald Primeau Essays Harlem Literati in the Twenties. Saturday Review of Literature (1940), Langston Hughes * My Early Days in Harlem. April 7, 1963. Typed manuscript with extensive pencil corrections, Langston Hughes * The Negro Author: His Publisher, His Public and His Purse. Publishers Weekly 147 (1945), J. Saunders Redding * Alain Locke's Relationship to the Negro in American Literature. Phylon (1957), William Stanley Braithwaite * The Literature of the Negro in the United States. In Addison Gayle, Jr., ed., Black Expression (New York: Weybright Talley, 1969), Richard Wright * The Negro Author and His Publisher. The Negro Quarterly 1 (1942), Sterling A. Brown