This reference identifies key contributors to the Black Arts Movement, the name given to a group of poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerg

During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African Ame

This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century.

Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the Harlem literary renaissance of the early-twentieth century

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesc