Real-life stories of struggle, achievement, victory, and sometimes loss that are an ideal companion for history, social science, language and geography studies.

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 19/6 - 17/8 1997.

By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a pre

Widely regarded as the key text of the Harlem Renaissance, this landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration includes contribut

The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African Am