Harlem Renaissance Literature Resources

Harlem Renaissance Literature Resources

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Artists, Hard at Work

If you're into silent, artsy films, you can't get more silent or artsy than this documentary. It shows actual Harlem Renaissance artists making their art. Silently.

PBS on the Harlem Renaissance

What would we do without PBS? No, really.

Harlem Renaissance Guide

This is the Harlem Renaissance website. It has really cool primary source materials, a bibliography—you know, all the stuff you would need if you were writing a paper on the HR.

What About the Women?

The women of the Harlem Renaissance were often overshadowed by the men… until this site. (Okay, we're being cute. But it's still a good site.)

A Quick Bibliography

Want a quick list of links to the writers of the Harlem Renaissance? This URL's for you.

Marcus Garvey

Find yourself craving more Marcus Garvey, but don't want to go hunting for his stuff all over the internet? Lucky for you, the UCLA African Studies Center website has everything you need. And more.

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. DuBois's collection of essays on black "souls" shows us that souls live forever… especially on the web. (Can you imagine if Langston Hughes had a Facebook page? Minds. Blown.)

Poets Unite

All you ever wanted to know about the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, in one place.

A Little Bit of Everything

A smattering of cool primary source materials and links, including a module completely devoted to Zora Neale Hurston. Yay.

Ken Burns' "Jazz"

A site that introduces some of the info found in Burns's PBS documentary on jazz. And since Ken Burns's name is attached to the project, it's got to be legit.