Diversity Resources

The Harlem Literary Renaissance

Compiled by David Ginsburg. For more information and/or reference assistance, please contact David Ginsburg (Email: david.ginsburg@cmich.edu, Phone: 989-774-1293) or ask at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Park Library (Phone: 774-3470).

Primary Sources: Collections | Primary Sources: Individual Authors | Secondary Sources

Primary Sources: Collections

Cullen, Countee, ed. Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. (originally published 1927).
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 591 .N4 C8 1955x

Cunard, Nancy, ed. Negro: an Anthology. (originally published 1934)
OVERSIZE, 1st floor: E 185.5 C98 1970

Gable, Craig, ed. Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 2004.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 647.A35 E24 2004

Gates, Henry Lewis and Jarrett, Gene Andrew, eds. The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938. Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press, 2007.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 N49 2007

Honey, Maureen, ed. Shadowed Dreams: Women’s Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2006.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 591 .N4 S54 2006

Huggins, Nathan Irvin, ed. Voices From the Harlem Renaissance. New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1976.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 509 .N4 V6

Hughes, Langston and Bontemps, Arna, eds. The Poetry of the Negro: 1746-1949. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1949.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PN 6109.7 H8

Johnson, James Weldon, ed. The Book of American Negro Poetry. (originally published 1931)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 591 .N4 J6 1958x

Lewis, David Levering, ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. New York, Viking, 1994.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 P67 1994

Locke, Alain, ed. The New Negro. (originally published 1925)
BOOKS, 1st floor: E 185.82 .L75 1968x

Patton, Venetria K. and Honey, Maureen, eds. Double-take: a Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. New Brunswick, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2001.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 509 .N4 D69 2001

Roses, Lorraine Elena and Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth, eds. Harlem’s Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950. Cambridge, MA Harvard Univ. Press, 1996.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 508 .N3 H37 1996

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Primary Sources: Individual Authors

Cullen, Countee. On These I Stand: an Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen. New York, Harper, 1947.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3505 .U287 A6 1947

Fauset, Jessie Redmon. There is Confusion. (originally published 1924)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3511 .A864 T44x 1974

Fisher, Rudolph. The City of Refuge: the Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher. Columbia, Univ. of Missouri Press, 1987.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3511 .I7436 Z78 1987

Fisher, Rudolph. The Walls of Jericho. (originally published 1928)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3511 .I7436 W24 1969x

Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea: an Autobiography. (Originally published 1940)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515. U274 Z5 1963

Hughes, Langston. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, V.1: The Poems, 1921-1940. Columbia, Univ. of Missouri Press, 2001.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515. U274 2001 V.1

Hughes, Langston. The Langston Hughes Reader. New York, Braziller, 1958.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U274 A6 1958

Hughes, Langston. Not Without Laughter. (originally published 1930)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U274 N6 1971x

Hughes, Langston. Selected Poems. (originally published 1959)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U274 A6 1971x

Hughes, Langston. The Ways of White Folks. (originally published 1934)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U274 W3 1990

Hurston, Zora Neale. I Love Myself When I am Laughing ... and Then Again When I am Looking Mean and Impressive. Edited by Alice Walker. Old Westbury, NY, Feminist Press, 1979.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U789 A6 1979

Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1935.
BOOKS, 1st floor: GR 103 .H8

Hurston, Zora Neale. Novels and Stories. New York, Library of America, 1995.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U789 A6 1995

Johnson, James Weldon. Along This Way: the Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson. New York, Viking, 1933.
BOOKS, 1st floor: E 185.97 .J69 1968x

Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. (originally published 1930)
BOOKS, 1st floor: F 128.9 .N3 J67 1968

Johnson, James Weldon. Complete Poems. New York, Penguin, 2000.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3519 .O2625 A17 2000

Larsen, Nella. Quicksand and Passing. (originally published 1928 and 1929 respectively)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3523 .A7225 A6 1986

McKay, Claude. Home to Harlem. (originally published 1928)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3523 .A24785 H65 1973x

McKay, Claude. A Long Way From Home. (originally published 1937)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3525 .A24785 Z5 1970

McKay, Claude. Selected Poems. New York, Bookman Associates, 1953.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3525 .A24785 A6 1953

Thurman, Wallace. The Blacker the Berry. (originally published 1929)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3539 .H957 B54x
Toomer, Jean. Cane. (originally published 1923)
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3539 .O478 C3 1988

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Secondary Sources

Baker, Houston A. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 B25 1987

Bontemps, Arna, ed. The Harlem Renaissance Remembered. New York, Dodd Mead, 1972.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 B63

Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: the Life of Zora Neale Hurston. New York, Scribner, 2003.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U789 Z63 2003

Boyle, Sheilla Tully. Paul Robeson: the Years of Promise and Achievement. Amherst, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
BOOKS, 1st floor: E 185.97 .R63 B69 2001

Cooper, Wayne F. Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: a Biography. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1987.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3525 .A24785 Z63 1987

Duberman, Martin B. Paul Robeson. New York, Knopf, 1988
BOOKS, 1st floor: E 185.97 R63 D83 1988

Harris, Trudier, ed. Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 51) Detroit, Gale, 1987.
REFERENCE, 2nd floor: PS 21 .D5 v.51

Huggins, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance. Updated ed. Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. (Originally published 1971.)
BOOKS, 1st floor: E 185.6 .H858 2001

Hull, Gloria T. Color, Sex, & Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1987.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 H84 1987

Hutchinson, George, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 C345 2007

Kramer, Victor A., ed. The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined. New York, AMS Press, 1987.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 H25 1987

Lewis, David L. When Harlem Was In Vogue. (originally published 1981)
BOOKS, 4th floor: NX 511 .N4 L48 1997

Rampersand, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes, V.1: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America. Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 3515 .U274 Z698 2002 v.1

Roses, Lorraine Elena and Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth. The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers. Boston, GK Hall, 1990.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 R65 1990

Sing, Amritjit; Shiver, William S.: and Browdin, Stanley, eds. The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations. New York, Garland, 1989.
BOOKS: 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 H264 1989

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington, Indiana Univ. Press, 1995.
BOOKS, 4th floor: PS 153 .N5 W33 1995

Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. New York, Pantheon, 1995.
BOOKS, 4th floor: NX 512.3 .N5 W38 1995

Wintz, Cary D. and Finkelman, Paul, eds. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. 2 vols. New York, Rutledge, 2004.
BOOKS, 4th floor: NX 512.3 .A35 E53 2004

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