Tag: Harlem

Miss Anne in Harlem The White Women of the Black Renaissance


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2013 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 0060882387 | EPUB | 10 MB
Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders.The 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, and passion-with Harlem at the epicenter. White men could go uptown to see jazz and modern dance, but women who embraced black culture too enthusiastically could be ostracized.Miss Anne in Harlem focuses on six of the unconventional, free-thinking women, some from Manhattan high society, many Jewish, who crossed race lines and defied social conventions to become a part of the culture and heartbeat of Harlem.Ethnic and gender studies professor Carla Kaplan brings the interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance to life with vivid prose, extensive research, and period photographs.

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The Swans of Harlem Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CDF73RK9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 294 MB
Author: Karen Valby
Narrator: Karlya Shelton-Benjamin, Sheila Rohan, Lydia Abarca Mitchell, Marcia Lynn Sells, Khadija Tariyan McKinney G., January LaVoy

The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history-until now. At the height of the Civil Rights movement, Lydia Abarca was a Black prima ballerina with a major international dance company-the Dance Theatre of Harlem, a troupe of women and men who became each other’s chosen family. She was the first Black company ballerina on the cover of Dance magazine, an Essence cover star; she was cast in The Wiz and in a Bob Fosse production on Broadway. She performed in some of ballet’s most iconic works with other trailblazing ballerinas, including the young women who became her closest friends-founding Dance Theatre of Harlem members Gayle McKinney-Griffith and Sheila Rohan, as well as first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton and Marcia Sells.

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Remember me to Harlem the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964


Free Download Remember me to Harlem : the letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 By Hughes, Langston; Van Vechten, Carl; Bernard, Emily; Hughes, Langston; Van Vechten, Carl
2001 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 0679451137 | EPUB | 5 MB
Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.

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Harlem Godfather The Rap on My Husband, Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson [Audiobook]


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English | September 28, 2021 | ASIN: B09GGZ2WNG | M4B@128 kbps | 7h 48m | 425 MB
Authors: Mayme Johnson, Karen E. Quinones | Narrator: Patricia R. Floyd
The first and only full biography on legendary Harlem gangster, Bumpy Johnson who was depicted in the movies Cotton Club, Hoodlum, and American Gangster

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