... feat: essentially inventing pop criticism. HARLEM RE NAIS SANCE Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation, 1925 Codifying the Harlem Re nais sance, this collection put popu lar music at the center of Black Arts debates. Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar, esteemed cosmopolitanism...

... Vechten’s Nigger Heaven (1926) Modern Articulations In his first disquisition on African American modernism, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987), Houston Baker sets out to save black America’s first modernist movement, the Harlem Renaissance, from...

... 200,000.113 Through this fusion of diverse peoples from across the southern United States, the Harlem Renaissance a cultural wave of poets, writers, musicians, dancers, performers, and other artists was born. Thomas likely arrived in Harlem a few years before Parker s mother, Mary Louise, did. Both had...

... PART I HARLEM BORN AND BRED This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1: FROM THE CRADLE TO THE CLASSROOM IN THE 1930S Barbara, Andrew, and me, 1931 I was born on October 8, 1930, in New York City's Harlem Hospital. My moth­er, Willie Edell Jones, told me that no sooner had she arrived at the...

... experiences of a previous generation of African American literary exiles, including Victor Séjour and the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance, which Anas had learned of from the 1949 anthology The Poetry of the Negro 1746–1949 , edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. ...

... Wright’s self-imposed exile to the experiences of a previous generation of African American literary exiles, including Victor Séjour and the writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance, which Anas had learned of from the 1949 anthology The Poetry of the Negro 1746–1949 , edited by Langston Hughes and...