The Harlem Renaissance in the American West The New Negro's Western Experience [Paperback]

The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in the Harlem Renaissance between 1914 and 1940, have been overlooked and neglected as locations of scholarship and research.

Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negro's Western Experiencewill change the way students and scholars of the Harlem Renaissance view the efforts of artists, musicians, playwrights, club owners, and various other players in African American communities all over the American West to participate fully in the cultural renaissance that took hold during that time.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Harlem Renaissance in the West

Cary D. Wintz and Bruce A. Glasrud

Chapters

1. Harlem in Houston

Charles Orson Cook

2. North Texas Black Art and Literature During the 1920s and 1930s: The

Current Is Much Stronger

Michael Phillips

3. The Western Black Renaissance in the Kansas City Region

Marc Rice

4. The New Negro Renaissance in Los Angeles, 1920-1940

Douglas Flamming

5. All Gods Children Got Swing : The Black Renaissance in the San Francisco

Bay Area, 1906-1941

Douglas Henry Daniels

6. Harlem Renaissance in Oklahoma

Jean Van Delinder

7. The New Negro Renaissance in Omaha and Lincoln, 1910-1940

Richard M. Brlc%