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Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
152 pp.
| Little/Tingley |
January, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-316-81411-3$$18.95
(4)
YA
While focusing on the writers, painters, musicians, and performers of the Harlem Renaissance, this book ranges widely across early twentieth-century African-American history. Much information and some good reproductions of artworks are here, but the text is clumsily written and repetitive, and the overuse of boxes, borders, insets, patterned backgrounds, and color blocks makes for a feverish design. Bib., ind.