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Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate
Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate: looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems
edited by Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 1996.
ISBN: 0805034943   DDC: 811.5080928309   LCC: PS591  

Summary:

Includes poems by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston
Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, with
commentary and a discussion of the development of African American
arts known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

W.E.B. Du Bois -- James Weldon Johnson -- Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Claude McKay -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Langston Hughes -- Arna Bontemps
-- Countee Cullen -- Helene Johnson -- Waring Cuney -- Richard Wright
-- Robert Hayden -- Margaret Walker -- Samuel Allen -- Gwendolyn
Brooks -- Lance Jeffers -- LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka -- Sonia
Sanchez -- Ishmael Reed -- James Randall, Jr. -- Nikki Giovanni --
Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Ntozake Shange.

Classification:

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Dewey Class: 811.5080928309 -- Poetry
LCC Number: PS591

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xii, 186 p. ; 22 cm.

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•  African Americans in literature (1181)
•  African Americans -- Juvenile poetry (60)
•  African Americans -- Poetry (305)
•  Afro-Americans in literature (167)
•  American poetry -- 20th century (1461)
•  American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism (959)
•  American poetry -- African American authors -- Collections (7)
•  American poetry -- African American authors -- History and criticism (49)
•  American poetry -- Afro-American authors -- Collections (1)
•  American poetry -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism (12)
•  Harlem Renaissance (222)
•  Young adult poetry, American -- African American authors (5)
•  Young adult poetry, American -- Afro-American authors (1)

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