Harlem Stomp!

Harlem Stomp!
Title Harlem Stomp! PDF eBook
Author Laban Carrick Hill
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages 273
Release 2009-01-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0316040487

Download Harlem Stomp! Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

When it was released in 2004, Harlem Stomp! was the first trade book to bring the Harlem Renaissance alive for young adults! Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated, the book is a veritable time capsule packed with poetry, prose, photographs, full-color paintings, and reproductions of historical documents. Now, after more than three years in hardcover, three starred reviews and a National Book Award nomination, Harlem Stomp! is being released in paperback.

Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood

Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood
Title Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood PDF eBook
Author Rob Nixon
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 305
Release 2022-10-05
Genre History
ISBN 1000631672

Download Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Originally published in 1994, Homelands, Harlem & Hollywood examines the anti-colonialist struggle against apartheid, and the ways in which American and South African culture have been fascinated with and influenced by one another. Rob Nixon’s wide-ranging analysis looks at Hollywood representations of the struggle for liberation, the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the Sophiatown writers, the banning and censorship of television under apartheid, Mandela and messianic politics, the sports and cultural boycotts, ethnic nationalism, and the culture of violence. Nixon concludes with an investigation of how the collapse of communism and anti-communism and the rise of ethnic cleansing in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union had powerful implications for the shape of post-apartheid South Africa.

When the Beat Was Born

When the Beat Was Born
Title When the Beat Was Born PDF eBook
Author Laban Carrick Hill
Publisher Roaring Brook Press
Pages 36
Release 2013-08-27
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1466844795

Download When the Beat Was Born Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back-to-school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaks—the musical interludes between verses—longer for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban Carrick Hill's book tells how Kool Herc came to be a DJ, how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance, and how the music he invented went on to define a culture and transform the world.

America Dreaming

America Dreaming
Title America Dreaming PDF eBook
Author Laban Carrick Hill
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages 331
Release 2009-06-30
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0316078832

Download America Dreaming Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Laban Hill, author of the acclaimed Harlem Stomp, is back with an in-depth exploration of America in the 1960's and the young people who built a new world around them and changed our society significantly. Like Harlem Stomp, America Dreaming is an educational and visual look into a time of energy and influence. Covering subjects such as the civil rights movement, hippie culture, black nationalism, and the feminist movement, Hill paints a sprawling picture of life in the '60's and shows how teenagers were on the forefront of the societal changes that occurred during this grand decade.

Celeste's Harlem Renaissance

Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
Title Celeste's Harlem Renaissance PDF eBook
Author Eleanora E. Tate
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages 182
Release 2009-01-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0316040460

Download Celeste's Harlem Renaissance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

When Celeste Lassiter Massey is forced to live with her actress Aunt Valentina in Harlem, she is not thrilled to trade her friends and comfortable North Carolina for scary, big-city life. While Celeste experiences the Harlem Renaissance in full swing, she sees as much grit as glamour. A passionate writer, talented violinist, and aspiring doctor, she eventually faces a choice between ambition and loyalty, roots and horizons. The decision will change her forever.

Say Her Name

Say Her Name
Title Say Her Name PDF eBook
Author Zetta Elliott
Publisher Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pages 98
Release 2020-01-04
Genre Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN 1368053890

Download Say Her Name Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls. This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by the works of Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Phillis Wheatley. This provocative collection will move every reader to reflect, respond-and act.

Walking Harlem

Walking Harlem
Title Walking Harlem PDF eBook
Author Karen Taborn
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 222
Release 2018-05-21
Genre Architecture
ISBN 081359460X

Download Walking Harlem Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New York’s most distinctive neighborhoods; it’s also one of the most walkable. This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering ninety-one different historical sites. Alongside major tourist destinations like the Apollo Theater and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime Harlem resident Karen Taborn includes little-known local secrets like Jazz Age speakeasies, literati, political and arts community locales. Drawing from rare historical archives, she also provides plenty of interesting background information on each location. This guide was designed with the needs of walkers in mind. Each tour consists of eight to twenty-nine nearby sites, and at the start of each section, readers will find detailed maps of the tour sites, as well as an estimated time for each walk. In case individuals would like to take a more leisurely tour, it provides recommendations for restaurants and cafes where they can stop along the way. Walking Harlem gives readers all the tools they need to thoroughly explore over a century’s worth of this vital neighborhood’s cultural, political, religious, and artistic heritage. With its informative text and nearly seventy stunning photographs, this is the most comprehensive, engaging, and educational walking tour guidebook on one of New York’s historic neighborhoods.