February 2010

Booklists · Celebrating Creativity: African Americans in the Arts

A selected reading list

Artists

cover of Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension by Sally Price

Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension

Sally Price

Harlem Renaissance Artists

Denise Jordan

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love

Kara Elizabeth Walker

Half Past Autumn: A Respective

Gordon Parks

Letter from Birmingham City Jail

Martin Luther King; Serigraph prints by Faith Ringgold

Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgoldï¿½s French Collection and Other Story Quilts

Faith Ringgold

The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Regionalism and Reform: Art and Class Formation in Antebellum Cincinnati [Robert Duncanson]

Wendy Jean Katz

Free Within Ourselves: African American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art

Regenia Perry

Frederick Douglass (DVD)

Betye and Alison Saar: Conjure Women of the Arts (DVD)

Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (DVD)

Musicians

cover of The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault

The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America

Raymond Arsenault

Eubie Blake

Al Rose

Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement

Sheila Tully Boyle

50 Cent

Michael Uschan

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude ï¿½Maï¿½ Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billy Holiday

Angela Y. Davis

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Terry Teachout

A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Voices of an American Community

So What: The Life of Miles Davis

John F. Szwed

Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano (DVD)

Charles Mingus: Triumph of the Underdog (DVD)

ï¿½Tryinï¿½ to Get Homeï¿½: A History of African American Song (DVD)

Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger than Life (DVD)

Celebration of Gospel: Spirit in Song (DVD)

Duke Ellingtonï¿½s Sophisticated Ladies (DVD)

Aidaï¿½s Brothers & Sisters: Black Voices in Opera (DVD)

Literature and Poetry

cover of Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work by Sharon L. Jones

Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work

Sharon L. Jones

Langston Hughes

Harold Bloom

I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin

Judith E. Stein

Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance

Cary D. Wintz

The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Womenï¿½s Literature

A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Complete Poems of Frances E.W.Harper

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Black American Women Poets and Dramatists

Harold Bloom

Maya Angelou

Harold Bloom

Brutal Imagination Poems

Cornelius Eady

Toni Morrison: Conversations

The History Makers Talking Truth: Courage (DVD)

Cora Unashamed (DVD)

Horace Pippin: There Will Be Peace (DVD)

A Moment in Time: African American Women of Achievement (DVD)

Alice Walker (DVD)

Dance

cover of Ailey Spirit: The Journey of an American Dance Company by Robert Tracy

Ailey Spirit: The Journey of an American Dance Company

Robert Tracy

Mr. Bojangles: The Biography of Bill Robinson

James Haskins

Ailey Spirit: The Journey of an American Dance Company

Robert Tracy

Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham

The American Dance Festivalï¿½s Dancing in the Light: Six Dances by African-America Choreographers (DVD)

Bojangles (DVD)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Beyond the Steps (DVD)

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