Teaching the Harlem Renaissance

Contents: Michael Soto: Introduction: Teaching the Harlem Renaissance - Dorothea Löbbermann: The Renaissance's Harlem: Representing Race and Place - Claudia Stokes: Literary Retrospection in the Harlem Renaissance - William J. Maxwell: Harlem Polemics, Harlem Aesthetics - Martha Jane Nadell: Visual Art of the Harlem Renaissance - Amber Harris Leichner: Harlem and the New Woman - Laura Harris: On Teaching a Black Queer Harlem Renaissance - Maureen Honey: Teaching Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance - James Smethurst: Teaching Sterling Brown's Poetry - Patrick S. Bernard: Teaching Countee Cullen's Poetry - Susan Tomlinson: Teaching Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun - Kathleen Pfeiffer: Teaching Waldo Frank's Holiday - Anita Patterson: Teaching Langston Hughes's Poetry - Hans Ostrom: Teaching Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks - Lawrence J. Oliver: Teaching James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - Emily M. Hinnov: Teaching Nella Larsen's Quicksand - Tom Lutz: Teaching Claude McKay's Home to Harlem - Michael Soto: Teaching The New Negro - Rita Keresztesi: Teaching George S. Schuyler's Black No More - Elisa Glick: Teaching Wallace Thurman's Infants of the Spring - Nathan Grant: Teaching Jean Toomer's Cane - Emily Bernard: Teaching Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven - Adam McKible: Teaching Edward Christopher Williams's When Washington Was in Vogue .

The Editor: Michael Soto is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century literature and cultural history. His previous books are The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature (2004) and Resources for Teaching the Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2 (2008). He holds degrees in modern thought and literature from Stanford University (A.B.) and in English and American literature and language from Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.).

"In a word, 'Teaching the Harlem Renaissance' is indispensable. It draws on the most recent scholarship - including perspectives from feminism, Marxism, queer studies, and visual culture - and presents in it a format ready for classroom use." (Cheryl A. Wall, Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, Rutgers University)