Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance /

Wintz, Cary D., 1943-

Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance / Cary D. Wintz. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1996. - 277 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Originally published: Houston : Rice University Press, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-267) and index.

The social and political background -- Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and the "New Negro" in black America -- Literary roots -- Th emergence of the renaissance in black literature -- Black Bohemia: When the Negro was in vogue -- The black intelligentsia: promoters -- The black intelligentsia: critics -- Black writers and white promoters -- Black literature and politics -- The decline of the Harlem Renaissance

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American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--New York (State)--New York
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African American arts--New York (State)--New York.

PS 153 .N5 / W57 1996 c.2