Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at theHarlem Renaissance through poems / [edited by] Nikki Giovanni. - 1st ed. - New York : H. Holt, 1996. - xii, 186 p ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.

School Library Journal starred. Wilson's Junior High School. Wilson's Senior High School.

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.

Young Adult Follett Library Resources.

0805034943

95038617


African Americans in literature.
African Americans--Poetry.
American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Harlem Renaissance.
Young adult poetry, American--African American authors.
African Americans--Poetry.
American poetry--African American authors--Collections.
American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans--Poetry.
American poetry--Collections.
American poetry--History and criticism.
Harlem Renaissance.

PS591.N4 / S55 1996

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