AFAM 560: Harlem Renaissance
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ART982: Art of the Harlem Renaissance

Citing 

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Newspapers 

African American Newspapers in Davis Library
A listing of the microfilm and online newspapers, many not yet listed in the catalog.

African American Newspapers in North Carolina
A listing of newspapers published in North Carolina, many are in the North Carolina Collection

Atlanta Constitution Historical Newspaper
Provides full text from 1868-1929.

Chicago Defender
Provides full text from 1910-1975. From the homepage click on Newspapers(on the right)

New York Times Historical
Provides full-text of the New York Times with page images from 1851-2005.

Interlibrary Loan

Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.

Books

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. (2004). New York: Routledge.
Davis Library Reference and Stone Center Library Reference NX512.3.A35 E53 2004 v.1-2

Sample Subject Headings for Harlem Renaissance

Journal Article Databases 

ABELL
Indexes English-language literatures, monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews, collections of essays and doctoral dissertations published anywhere in the world.

Academic Onefile
Provides information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.

America, History and Life
Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations that cover American and Canadian history.

Art Full Text
Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations that cover American and Canadian history.

Black Drama
Contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 150 playwrights.

Black Literature, 1827-1940
Davis Library (Information Commons, E-Ref, CD-ROM, 10-49
A CD-ROM index to the microfiche collection Black Literature, 1827-1940 (Davis Microforms, Fiche 1-3162). The microfiche collection will reproduce over 150,000 discrete pieces of fiction, poetry, book reviews and literary notices appearing in approximately 900 black periodicals and newspapers, 1827-1940. The beginning date coincides with the initial publication of Freedom's Journal, the first black periodical.

Black Studies Center
A fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies that combines several resources in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP),full text of the Chicago Defender, and the Black Literature Index. .

Black Thought and Culture
Provides an electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders throughout the history of North America.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Provides a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text
This searches the International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) and The Marshall Index. IIBP includes current and retrospective citations and abstracts from scholarly publications from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, with full-text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. The Marshall Index is a guide to black periodicals from 1940-1946.

JSTOR
Provides full-text of scholarly journal literature in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Several African American Studies journals are included; view them by using the "Browse by Discipline" feature.

MLA International Bibliography plus Full Text via Chadwyck-Healey's LiteratureOnline
Indexes articles in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from journals, monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies, and dissertations. Also indexes JSTOR's Language and Literature journal collection. The years of coverage for these journals varies.

Oxford African American Studies Center
Provides access to reference works such as the African American National Biography, Africana, Encyclopedia of African American History, and some selected primary resources

Project Muse
Provides full-text of scholarly journal literature in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Over 40 literature journals are available, including Callaloo.

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Reference Books 

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks

Aberjhani and West, Sandra L. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance.
New York: Facts On File, Inc. ; c2003.
Stone Center Reference, Davis Reference, PS153.N5 A24 2003

Andrews, William L., Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. (also available via Netlibrary)
Stone Center Library Reference, Davis Reference, House Undergraduate Reference, PS153.N5 O96 1997
Also available as an E-Book

Bloom, Harold. Black American prose writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, c1994.
Stone Center Library, Davis Library, PS366.A35 B58 1994 Also available as an E-Book

Brown, Lois. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance.
New York: Facts On File, c2006.
Undergrad Library Reference, PS153.N5 B675 2006

Harris, Trudier, editor. Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940.
Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., c1987.
Davis Reference, Undergrad Reference, PS21 .D5185 1978 vol. 51

Kellner, Bruce, editor. The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1984.
Davis Reference, Undergrad Library, NX511.N4 H37 1984

Roses, Lorraine Elena and Randolph, Ruth Elizabeth. Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945.
Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, c1990.
Stone Center Library, Davis Reference, Undergrad Library Reference, PS153.N5 R65 1990

Salzman, Jack, et al. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas.
Detroit, Mich.: Macmillan Library Reference, c2006.
Davis Library E185 .E54 2006 v. 1-5. Also available as an E-Book

Wintz, Cary D. and Finkelman, Paul, editors. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance.
New York : Routledge, 2004.
Stone Center Reference, Davis Reference, NX512.3.A35 E53 2004 v.1-2

Witalec, Janet, editor. The Harlem Renaissance: A Gale Critical Companion.
Detroit: Gale, c2003.
Davis Reference, Undergrad Library Reference, PS153.N5 H245 2003

Bibliographies

Bassett, John Earl. Harlem in Review: Critical Reactions to Black American Writers, 1917-1939.
Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1992.
Davis Library Reference, Undergrad Library, Z1229.N39 B37 1992

Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, editor-in-chief. The Harvard Guide to African-American History.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Stone Center Reference, Davis Reference, Undergrad Library Reference, E185 .H326 2001

Perry, Margaret. The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary.
New York : Garland Pub., 1982.
Davis Reference, Undergrad Library Reference, Z5956.A47 P47 1982

Rodgers, Marie E. The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Reference Guide for Student Research.
Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
Davis Reference, Music Library, NX512.3.A35 R64 1998
Also available as an E-Book

Sample Subject Headings 

The hyperlinks listed below are subject headings found in the UNC-Chapel Hill Catalog. These headings can be used with other library catalogs such as WorldCat (OCLC), which includes the holdings of U.S. and international libraries.

Harlem Renaissance.
Harlem Renaissance -- Bibliography.
Harlem Renaissance -- Dictionaries.
Harlem Renaissance -- Encyclopedias.

Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.

American literature -- African American authors.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York.
African American arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Bibliography.

Primary Sources 

ArchiveGrid
Provides online access to descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives worldwide.

Archives of American Art
Archives of American Art is the world's largest primary source collection of the visual arts in America, with 14 million items. Useful for information on individual artists, including oral histories.

Black Thought and Culture
Provides an electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major black leaders throughout the history of North America.

The Crisis (monthly magazine of the NAACP)
Invaluable for articles on culture, the New Negro, and the Harlem Renaissance. The final issue of each publication year has an index.
Davis Library, E185.5 .C92

Danky, James P., editor. African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Stone Center Reference, Davis Reference, PN4882.5.N39 S37 1998

Index to the Schomburg Clipping File.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, c1986.
Davis Reference, Z1361.N39 S373 1986
Note: The entire Schomburg Center Clipping File, 1925-1974, is available on Davis Library Microfiche, 1-2759 sheet 1-9500

The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986.
Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carlson Pub., Inc., 1992.
Davis Reference, Z1361.N39 K34 1992

Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life. (monthly magazine of the National Urban League)
Along with the The Crisis, the Opportunity followed important cultural and political trends during the Harlem Renaissance
Davis Library, E185.5 .O6

Spradling, Mary Mace, editor. In Black and White: A Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles, and Books Concerning More Than 15,000 Black Individuals and Groups.
Detroit, MI: Gale Research Co., c1980.
Davis Reference, Undergrad Reference, Z1361.N39 S655

Wintz, Cary D., series editor. The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940.
New York: Garland Pub., 1996.
Davis Library, PS153.N5 H24 1996 vol. 1-7

Dissertations 

Dissertations & Theses Databases

Dissertations & Theses
Indexes U. S. dissertations from 1861 to as recent as last semester. The full text of dissertations from 1997 on are available for free downloading in PDF format.

Dissertations & Theses @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Provides citations for Chapel Hill dissertation from the 1920s and Masters theses from 1966 on. From 1980 on dissertations include 350-word abstracts while masters' theses from 1987 forward have 150 word abstracts. From 1997, this database also includes the full text of dissertations and from 2006 on for selected masters theses.

University Libraries Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
The Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began to accept electronic submissions of theses and dissertations in 2006, and required electronic submissions beginning in 2007. This database provides full text access to those theses and dissertations submitted electronically from 2006 forward.

A Selection of Dissertations & Theses Available at UNC Libraries

Black Versus Bourgeois During the Harlem Renaissance the Study of a Literary Conflict.
Lawrence, Katie Elizabeth Campbell
Davis Library Microfilm, 1-1996

The Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude Movement: Literary Relations and Influences
Ako, Edward Oben
Davis Library, PQ3897 .A56 1982a

The Harlem Renaissance and the Romanticism of Countee Cullen and Claude McKay
Sockwell, Recardo Vernard
Davis Library Thesis, Thesis English 1976 S678

Langston Hughes: A Biographical Study of the Harlem Renaissance Years, 1902-1932
Cunningham, George Philbert
Davis Library, PS3515.U274 Z619 1983a

My Color Shrouds Me In: The Impact of Skin Color on Black Women in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Mazyck, Rachel Yvette
North Carolina Collection, C378 UO3 2002 v. 4

Negroes in Crisis: An examination of Harlem Renaissance Novels, 1923-1929
Fox, Louise Van Winkle
Davis Library Thesis, Thesis History 1970 F791

Seven Library Women Whose Humane Presence Enlightened Society in the Harlem Renaissance Iconoclastic Ethos
Nelson, Marilyn
Information and Library Science Library, Z682.4.W65 N458 1996a

Full-Text Online Sources 

Literature Online
A searchable database of English and American poetry, drama, prose, biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources are also included

Literature Resource Center
Includes full-text of journal articles and critical essays from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Audio  

African American Song
"Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, African American Song includes 50,000 tracks of music".

Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words from the Harlem Renaissance (2000)
Music Library -- CD-4958

Video

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Available online and at the Media Resources Center Videocassette -- 65-V5771

 

A Meditation on Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and the Harlem Renaissance With the Poetry of Essex Hemphill and Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) (1992)
Media Resources Center Videocassette -- 65-V6209

From These Roots: A Review of the Harlem Renaissance (1989)
Media Resources Center Videocassette -- 65-V2351

Web Sites 

Web sites can be valuable sources of information. Keep in mind the importance of evaluating information you find on the web. In addition to using Google and other search engines, use resources developed by librarians such as the Stone Center Library's Guide to the Web, as well as Librarians' Internet Index or the Scout Report.

Selected Web Sites for Research:

Drop Me Off in Harlem: Exploring the Intersections
(Source: The Kennedy Center)

Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials at the Library of Congress
(Source: Library of Congress)

Harlem Renaissance
(Source: John Carroll University)

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
(Source: University of Virginia Library)

Google Scholar