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Native Son

Posted on April 15, 2013 - 1:32pm — Allyson McGinty

Author

First Name:

Herrold

Last Name:

Freedman

Collaborators:

Robert Mugge, Agnex Nixon, Carroll Baker, Akosha Busia, Matt Dillon, Victor Love, Elizabeth McGovern

Publish Company:

American Playhouse, Summer Night Music

Medium:

Textual

Year:

1986

Previously filmed in Argentina in 1951, black author Richard Wright's powerful race-conscious novel {-Native Son} was remade in this barely released 1986 version. The story involves Bigger Thomas (Victor Love), an angry Depression-era Chicago black who hopes to elevate himself through his chauffeur's job with a prosperous white Gold Coast family.

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Hip Hop's Inheritance

Posted on June 23, 2011 - 12:13pm — abipolinsky

Author

First Name:

Reliand

Last Name:

Rabaka

Subtitle:

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement

Publish City:

Lanham, MD

Publish Company:

Lexington Books

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

Year:

2011

Hip Hop's Inheritance arguably offers the first book-length treatment of what hip hop culture has, literally, inherited from the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts movement, t

Amazon url:
http://www.amazon.com/Hip-Hop-Inheritance-Renaissance-Feminist/dp/0739164805/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308845998&sr=1-1
Featured:
In Focus: Women
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Rhapsodies in Black
Posted on March 9, 2009 - 12:20pm — kedamai

Author
First Name:
Richard J.
Last Name:
Powell

Collaborators:
Simon Callow, Andrea D. Barnwell, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Paul Gilroy, Martina Attille, Henry Louis Gate
Subtitle:
Art of the Harlem Renaissance
Publish City:
University of California Press
Publish Company:
Berkeley
ISSN/ISBN:
520212681
Language:
English
Medium:
Textual
Year:
1997
In the years following the First World War, black Americans began migrating to the cities of the north in increasing numbers. New York's Harlem became a magnet for musicians, writers, artists and performers, whose creative activity was celebrated under the banner of 'the New Negro Arts Movement'.

Pages:
182
Amazon url:
http://www.amazon.com/Rhapsodies-Black-Art-Harlem-Renaissance/dp/0520212681/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249418162&sr=1-1
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