Harlem--Africana Library, Cornell University

Harlem, New York Bibliography

(http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/harlem.html)

Complied by Eric Kofi Acree

History | Social Conditions | Fiction | Web Sites

History:

23rd Precinct: The Job, Arlene Schulman, New York: Soho Press, Incorporated, 2002

The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Delemmas of Nego Leadership, Howard Brotz, New York: Sch ocken Books, 1970.

Black Manhattan, Johnson, James Weldon, New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, 1991.

Black Organized Crime in Harlem, 1920-1930, Rufus Schatzberg, New York: Garland Publishers, 1993.

Communist in Harlem During the Depression, Mark Naison, New York: Grove Press, 1984.

Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections of a Harlem Childhood, Horowitz, Irving L, Transaction Publishers, 1998.

Discovering Black New York: A Guide to the City's Most Important African-American Landmark, Tarrant-Reid, Linda, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2001.

The Great Jazz Day, Graham, Charles., Da Capo Press ; Kansas City, MO, 2000.

Harlem: A Community in Transition, Clarke, John Henrik, editor, New York: Citadel Press, 1964.

Harlem At War: The Black Experience in WWII, Brandt, Nat, New York: Syracuse Univeristy Press, 1996

Harlem Churches: At the End of the Twentieth Century, Cynthia Hickman, Dunbar, Incorporated, 2001

Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals, James Riker, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970.

Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968, Allon Schoener, ed., New York: News Press, 1995.

Harlem Style, Roderick N. Shade and Jorge S. Arango, New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002.

Harlem, The Making of a Ghetto, Gilbert Osofsky, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996.

Harlem Today: A Cultural and Visitors Guide, Bailey, A. Peter, DIANE Publishing Company, PA, 1998.

Harlem, U.S.A, Clarke, John Henrik, editor, New York: Collier Books, 1971.

A History of the Masjid Malcolm Shabazz: A Cultural Watershed in the Harlem and American Experience, United States: A.M. Mannan, 2000.

"Or Does it Explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression, Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991

Sea Island to City: A Study of the Helena Islanders in Harlem and Other Urban Centers, Kiser, Clyde Vernon, New York: Atheneum, 1969.

A Short History of East Harlem, Donald Stewart, New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1972.

Showtime at the Apollo, Ted Fox, New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.

This Was Harlem: 1900-1950, Anderson, Jervis, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982.

What Made Harlem Famous, Kalamazoo, Mich.: On the Move Publishers, 1992

When Harlem Was Jewish, 1870-1930, Jeffery S. Gurock, New York: Columbia Univerisity Press, 1979.

Social Conditions:

36 Children, Herbert Kohl, New York: New American Library,1967.

Blood relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930, Irma Watkins-Owens, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

Children Race and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center, Markowitz, Gerald E., Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1996.

Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power, Kenneth Clark, New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

From Abandonment to Hope: Community-households in Harlem, New York : Columbia University Press, 1990

Growing Old in El Barrio, Freidenberg, Judith, New York : New York University Press, 2000..

Harlem Between Heaven and Hell, Monique M. Taylor, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Harlem World: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America, John L. Jackson, Jr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown, New York: Macmillan, 1965.

One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem, William Hawkeswood, Berkley: University of California Press, 1996.

A School of Our Own: Parents, Power, and Community at the East Harlem Block Schools, Tom Roderick, Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2001.

Fiction:

Across 110th Street, Wally Ferris, New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

All Shot Up, Chester Himes, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996.

An Intimation of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen, Charles R. Larson, ed., New York : Anchor Books, 1992.

The Big Gold Dream, Chester Himes, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996.

Bird at My Window, Rosa Guy, Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press, 2001

The Blacker the Berry, Wallace Thurman, New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996.

Blind Man with a Pistol, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, William L. Andrews, New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen, Nella Larsen, New York : Anchor Books, 2001.

The Conjure-man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem, Rudolph Fisher, Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1992.

A Conversation with the Mann : a novel, Ridley, John, New York : Warner Books, 2002.

Cotton comes to Harlem, Chester Himes, New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1965.

The Crazy Kill, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Daddy Was A Number Runner, Louise Meriwether, New York: Feminist Press at the City of New York, 1970.

Do or Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Edwards, Grace F. (Grace Frederica), New York : Doubleday, 2000.

A Feast of Fools: A Novel, Ebele Oseye, New York : Africana Legacy Press, 1998.

A Fling With a Demon Lover, New York : HarperCollins, 1996.

Friday Nights at Honeybee's, Andrea Smith, New York : The Dial Press, 2003

Giveadamn Brown, Robert Deane Pharr, New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.

Harlem, Len Riley, New York: Doubleday, 1997.

The Harlem Knight, James Bovine, Brooklyn: L'écrivain, 1989.

Harlem Redux: A Novel, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002

The Haunting of Hip Hop: A Novel, Bertice Berry, New York : Doubleday, 2001

The Heat's On, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1988.

The Hit; and, The Long Night, Julian Mayfield, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989.

Home to Harlem, Claude McKay, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.

If I should Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Grace F. Edwards, New York : Doubleday, 1997.

Infants of the Spring, Wallace Thurman, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

Jazz, Toni Morrison, Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1993.

Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, 1989.

Nigger Heaven, Carl Van Vechten, Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000.

No Easy Place to Be, Steven Corbin, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

No Regrets, Mildred E. Riley, Columbus, Miss. : Genesis Press, 1998.

No Time to Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Edwards, Grace F. (Grace Frederica), New York : Doubleday, 1999.

Pinktoes: A Novel, Chester Himes, Jackson, MS: Banner Books, 1996.

Push: A Novel, Sapphire, New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.

Queen of Harlem, Brian Keith Jackson, New York : Doubleday, 2002.

Quicksand and, Passing, Nella Larsen, New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Satin Doll: A Novel, Karen E. Quinones Miller, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001.

The Sleeper Wakes:Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women, Marcy Knopf, ed., New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993.

S.R.O., Robert Deane Pharr, New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.

The Street, Ann Petry, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991.

Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone: A Novel, Baldwin, James, New York, Dial Press, 1968

A Toast Before Dying: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Grace F. Edwards, New York : Doubleday, 1998

A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

The Real Cool Killers, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1988.

Requiem for Harlem, Roth, Henry, New York: Picador, 1999.

The Return of Simple, Langston Hughes, New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.

Rite of Passage, Richard Wright, New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.

The Walls of Jericho, Rudolph Fisher, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Web Sites:

The Boys Choir of Harlem - http://www.boyschoirofharlem.org/

Harlem - http://www.ny.com/sights/neighborhoods/harlem.html

Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibition - http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/

Harlem: A History in Pictures - http://www.newyorkmetro.com/metrotv/02/blackhistory_photos/

Harlem-Ontime - http://www.harlem-ontime.com/

Harlem Spirituals & New York Visions Tours - http://www.harlemspirituals.com/

The Harlem Theatre Company - http://harlemtc.com/

Malcolm X Boulevard - http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/mxb/index.html

Morningside Heights Historic District Committee - http://www.preserve.org/mhhd/mhhd.htm

Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Assocation - http://www.harlemmtmorris.org./

The Studio Museum in Harlem - http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/

Showtime in Harlem - http://www.showtimeinharlem.com/


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		Print This Page Harlem, New York Bibliography (http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/guides/harlem.html) Complied by Eric Kofi Acree History \| Social Conditions \| Fiction \| Web Sites History: 23rd Precinct: The Job, Arlene Schulman, New York: Soho Press, Incorporated, 2002 The Black Jews of Harlem: Negro Nationalism and the Delemmas of Nego Leadership, Howard Brotz, New York: Sch ocken Books, 1970. Black Manhattan, Johnson, James Weldon, New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, 1991. Black Organized Crime in Harlem, 1920-1930, Rufus Schatzberg, New York: Garland Publishers, 1993. Communist in Harlem During the Depression, Mark Naison, New York: Grove Press, 1984. Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections of a Harlem Childhood, Horowitz, Irving L, Transaction Publishers, 1998. Discovering Black New York: A Guide to the City's Most Important African-American Landmark, Tarrant-Reid, Linda, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2001. The Great Jazz Day, Graham, Charles., Da Capo Press ; Kansas City, MO, 2000. Harlem: A Community in Transition, Clarke, John Henrik, editor, New York: Citadel Press, 1964. Harlem At War: The Black Experience in WWII, Brandt, Nat, New York: Syracuse Univeristy Press, 1996 Harlem Churches: At the End of the Twentieth Century, Cynthia Hickman, Dunbar, Incorporated, 2001 Harlem: Its Origins and Early Annals, James Riker, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1970. Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968, Allon Schoener, ed., New York: News Press, 1995. Harlem Style, Roderick N. Shade and Jorge S. Arango, New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2002. Harlem, The Making of a Ghetto, Gilbert Osofsky, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996. Harlem Today: A Cultural and Visitors Guide, Bailey, A. Peter, DIANE Publishing Company, PA, 1998. Harlem, U.S.A, Clarke, John Henrik, editor, New York: Collier Books, 1971. A History of the Masjid Malcolm Shabazz: A Cultural Watershed in the Harlem and American Experience, United States: A.M. Mannan, 2000. "Or Does it Explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression, Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991 Sea Island to City: A Study of the Helena Islanders in Harlem and Other Urban Centers, Kiser, Clyde Vernon, New York: Atheneum, 1969. A Short History of East Harlem, Donald Stewart, New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1972. Showtime at the Apollo, Ted Fox, New York: Da Capo Press, 1993. This Was Harlem: 1900-1950, Anderson, Jervis, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. What Made Harlem Famous, Kalamazoo, Mich.: On the Move Publishers, 1992 When Harlem Was Jewish, 1870-1930, Jeffery S. Gurock, New York: Columbia Univerisity Press, 1979. Social Conditions: 36 Children, Herbert Kohl, New York: New American Library,1967. Blood relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930, Irma Watkins-Owens, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Children Race and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center, Markowitz, Gerald E., Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1996. Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power, Kenneth Clark, New York: Harper & Row, 1965. From Abandonment to Hope: Community-households in Harlem, New York : Columbia University Press, 1990 Growing Old in El Barrio, Freidenberg, Judith, New York : New York University Press, 2000.. Harlem Between Heaven and Hell, Monique M. Taylor, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Harlem World: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America, John L. Jackson, Jr., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown, New York: Macmillan, 1965. One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem, William Hawkeswood, Berkley: University of California Press, 1996. A School of Our Own: Parents, Power, and Community at the East Harlem Block Schools, Tom Roderick, Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2001. Fiction: Across 110th Street, Wally Ferris, New York: Harper & Row, 1970. All Shot Up, Chester Himes, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996. An Intimation of Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella Larsen, Charles R. Larson, ed., New York : Anchor Books, 1992. The Big Gold Dream, Chester Himes, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1996. Bird at My Window, Rosa Guy, Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press, 2001 The Blacker the Berry, Wallace Thurman, New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996. Blind Man with a Pistol, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, William L. Andrews, New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen, Nella Larsen, New York : Anchor Books, 2001. The Conjure-man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem, Rudolph Fisher, Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1992. A Conversation with the Mann : a novel, Ridley, John, New York : Warner Books, 2002. Cotton comes to Harlem, Chester Himes, New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1965. The Crazy Kill, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Daddy Was A Number Runner, Louise Meriwether, New York: Feminist Press at the City of New York, 1970. Do or Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Edwards, Grace F. (Grace Frederica), New York : Doubleday, 2000. A Feast of Fools: A Novel, Ebele Oseye, New York : Africana Legacy Press, 1998. A Fling With a Demon Lover, New York : HarperCollins, 1996. Friday Nights at Honeybee's, Andrea Smith, New York : The Dial Press, 2003 Giveadamn Brown, Robert Deane Pharr, New York : W.W. Norton, 1997. Harlem, Len Riley, New York: Doubleday, 1997. The Harlem Knight, James Bovine, Brooklyn: L'écrivain, 1989. Harlem Redux: A Novel, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002 The Haunting of Hip Hop: A Novel, Bertice Berry, New York : Doubleday, 2001 The Heat's On, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1988. The Hit; and, The Long Night, Julian Mayfield, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989. Home to Harlem, Claude McKay, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987. If I should Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Grace F. Edwards, New York : Doubleday, 1997. Infants of the Spring, Wallace Thurman, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992. Jazz, Toni Morrison, Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1993. Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, 1989. Nigger Heaven, Carl Van Vechten, Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000. No Easy Place to Be, Steven Corbin, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. No Regrets, Mildred E. Riley, Columbus, Miss. : Genesis Press, 1998. No Time to Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Edwards, Grace F. (Grace Frederica), New York : Doubleday, 1999. Pinktoes: A Novel, Chester Himes, Jackson, MS: Banner Books, 1996. Push: A Novel, Sapphire, New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996. Queen of Harlem, Brian Keith Jackson, New York : Doubleday, 2002. Quicksand and, Passing, Nella Larsen, New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1986. Satin Doll: A Novel, Karen E. Quinones Miller, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. The Sleeper Wakes:Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women, Marcy Knopf, ed., New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993. S.R.O., Robert Deane Pharr, New York : W.W. Norton, 1998. The Street, Ann Petry, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991. Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone: A Novel, Baldwin, James, New York, Dial Press, 1968 A Toast Before Dying: A Mali Anderson Mystery, Grace F. Edwards, New York : Doubleday, 1998 A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1989. The Real Cool Killers, Chester Himes, New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Requiem for Harlem, Roth, Henry, New York: Picador, 1999. The Return of Simple, Langston Hughes, New York: Hill and Wang, 1994. Rite of Passage, Richard Wright, New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. The Walls of Jericho, Rudolph Fisher, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Web Sites: The Boys Choir of Harlem - http://www.boyschoirofharlem.org/ Harlem - http://www.ny.com/sights/neighborhoods/harlem.html Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibition - http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/ Harlem: A History in Pictures - http://www.newyorkmetro.com/metrotv/02/blackhistory_photos/ Harlem-Ontime - http://www.harlem-ontime.com/ Harlem Spirituals & New York Visions Tours - http://www.harlemspirituals.com/ The Harlem Theatre Company - http://harlemtc.com/ Malcolm X Boulevard - http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/mxb/index.html Morningside Heights Historic District Committee - http://www.preserve.org/mhhd/mhhd.htm Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Assocation - http://www.harlemmtmorris.org./ The Studio Museum in Harlem - http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org/ Showtime in Harlem - http://www.showtimeinharlem.com/