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When Harlem Was in Vogue

Author David Levering Lewis
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Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
5.12"W x 7.72"H x 1.06"D   | 13 oz | 44 per carton
On sale Jun 01, 1997 | 448 Pages | 9780140263343
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"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."—The New York Times Book Review.
David Levering Lewis is professor emeritus of history at New York University. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal, Lewis received the Pulitzer Prize for each volume of his W. E. B. Du Bois biography. He is the author of eleven books. Lewis has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the Wilson Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in New York City. View titles by David Levering Lewis
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Penguin Edition
Preface

1. We Return Fighting
2. City of Refuge
3. Stars
4. Enter the New Negro
5. The Six
6. Nigger Heaven
7. A Jam of a Party
8. The Fall of the Manor
9. It's Dead Now

Notes
Index

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"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."—The New York Times Book Review.

Author

David Levering Lewis is professor emeritus of history at New York University. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal, Lewis received the Pulitzer Prize for each volume of his W. E. B. Du Bois biography. He is the author of eleven books. Lewis has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the Wilson Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the MacArthur Foundation. He lives in New York City. View titles by David Levering Lewis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Penguin Edition
Preface

1. We Return Fighting
2. City of Refuge
3. Stars
4. Enter the New Negro
5. The Six
6. Nigger Heaven
7. A Jam of a Party
8. The Fall of the Manor
9. It's Dead Now

Notes
Index

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