Table of Contents

Chapter 1. When the Negro Was In Vogue
Chapter 2. Defining New Negro Identities
Chapter 3. Harlem: City of Dream
Chapter 4. What Is Africa to Me?
Chapter 5. Strong Roots Sink Down
Epilogue: Beyond Harlem
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Cheryl A. Wall is a literary critic and professor of English at Rutgers University. She specializes in black women's writing, particularly the Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston. She is the author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage and Literary Tradition and Women of the Harlem Renaissance, and the editor of several volumes of Hurston's writings for the Library of America. She is also a section editor for The Norton
Anthology of African American Literature and is on the editorial board of American Literature, The African American Review and Signs.