Prologue
Dream Variation
Langston Hughes
Creating Context
From
Still Life in Harlem by Eddy L. Harris • Map of Harlem
Cluster One: What Was Life Like During the Harlem
Renaissance?
Thinking Skill: Describing
- Seventh Avenue: The Great Black Way (essay)
- Jervis Anderson
- Laundry Workers’ Choir (vignette)
- Vivian Morris
- The Typewriter (short story)
- Dorothy West
- Rent Parties (article)
- Frank Byrd
- The Tropics in New York (poem)
- Claude McKay
- Harlem Wine (poem)
- Countee Cullen
Cluster Two: What Did Harlem Renaissance Writers Say
About Being Black?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- All God’s Chillun Got Eyes (memoir)
- E. Franklin Frazier
- Race Pride (essay)
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- I, Too (poem)
- Langston Hughes
- Any Human to Another (poem)
- Countee Cullen
- Black Men, You Shall Be Great Again (essay)
- Marcus Garvey
- How It Feels to Be Colored Me (essay)
- Zora Neale Hurston
- The Pink Hat (short story)
- Caroline Bond Day
- A Black Man Talks of Reaping (poem)
- Arna Bontemps
Cluster Three: What Contributions Were Made to American Art and Culture?
Thinking Skill: Generalizing
- The Negro Artist and the
Racial Mountain (essay)
- Langston Hughes
- Miss Cynthie (short story)
- Rudolph Fisher
- From “Ellington’s ‘Mood in Indigo’ ” (article)
- Janet Mabie
- Jazzonia (poem)
- Langston Hughes
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Spike’s Gotta Do It (journal)
- Spike Lee
- If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then
Tell Me, What Is? (article)
- James Baldwin
- In Search of Zora Neale Hurston (personal narrative)
- Alice Walker
- There’s a Harlem Renaissance in My Head (prose poem)
- Maurice E. Duhon Jr.
