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Big girl
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ISBN: 9780349017846 Year: 2023 Publisher: London : Virago Press,

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What is a child's body worth when it is big, Black and female - when it is under constant demand to be something other than what it naturally is? In Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's achingly beautiful coming-of-age debut novel, "Big Girl," this body carries the weight of an entire neighborhood.When the book opens in the late 1980s, Malaya is an 8-year-old girl living with her parents in Harlem, burdened with a figure others consider ugly and a home life riddled with tension. Her mother, Nyela, tries and often fails to control her own Black body - for the sake of a notion of respectability and desirability that's been passed down from her mother and grandmother - and she drags Malaya to Weight Watchers meetings that only make Malaya hungrier. Meanwhile Malaya's father, Percy, dotes on her and resists Nyela's injunctions to stop feeding her.Sullivan portrays Percy tenderly, as though his entire being is rooted in the resentment of hunger of any kind. Having survived an impoverished childhood in the Harlem projects, where he experienced involuntary starvation firsthand, he has moved Nyela and Malaya into a crumbling brownstone in his home neighborhood, which appears to be poised for change. Treasuring the full-bodied women in his family as evidence of how far he has come from his youth, Percy blinds himself to the health risks of Malaya's overindulgence. As his love causes Malaya harm - a doctor says she is "morbidly obese" - the household begins to crumble like the walls and community around them.

The portable Harlem Renaissance reader
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ISBN: 9780140170368 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York : Penguin Books,

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Chester Himes : a critical appraisal
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ISBN: 0826201903 Year: 1976 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press


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Harlem Renaissance
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ISBN: 9781619258228 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ipswich : Amenia : Salem Press ; Grey House Publishing,

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Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance presents the period of unparallel growth in art and literature from the African American Community, also known as the Harlem Renaissance. With its production of key authors, from Langston Hughes to Claude McKay, among others, the Harlem Renaissance saw the rise in creative endeavors by black artists and writers eager to celebrate the unique characteristics of black life and to challenge the institutionalized racial hierarchy pervasive within twentieth-century American society. These creative thinkers, certainly intellectuals in their own right, used their poetry, short stories, novels, and plays as a vehicle to critique the longstanding issues within society that limited socioeconomic mobility for blacks, while perpetuating startling stereotypes about a community too long oppressed. Because of its undeniable impact in shaping the American cultural imagination regarding blacks and on the larger American literary canon, the Harlem Renaissance has since been heavily studied as the most significant period of artistic as well as cultural development the African American community has ever experienced.

Chester Himes : an annotated primary and secondary bibliography
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ISBN: 0313283966 Year: 1992 Volume: 30 Publisher: Westport ; London Greenwood Press


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Vicious modernism : Black Harlem and the literary imagination
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Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press,

Classic fiction of the Harlem Renaissance
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ISBN: 019508196X Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press


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African fundamentalism : a literary and cultural anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance
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ISBN: 0912469099 Year: 1991 Publisher: Dover, Mass. : Majority Press,

Black protest poetry : polemics from the Harlem renaissance and the sixties
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ISBN: 082042482X 9780820424828 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Lang,

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"Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox. In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical approach, employing instead street idiom and other modes of Black discourse. While the poets' strategies of the two periods differ, one element remained constant - the theme of protest. It is this similarity in purpose that marks the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance as a precursor of the revolutionary poetry of the sixties."--Jacket.


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The Jews of Harlem : The Rise, Decline, and Revival of a Jewish Community
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ISBN: 1479877204 147980116X Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, New York : New York University Press,

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The complete story of Jewish Harlem and its significance in American Jewish historyNew York Times columnist David W. Dunlap wrote a decade ago that “on the map of the Jewish Diaspora, Harlem Is Atlantis. . . . A vibrant hub of industry, artistry and wealth is all but forgotten. It is as if Jewish Harlem sank 70 years ago beneath waves of memory beyond recall.” During World War I, Harlem was the home of the second largest Jewish community in America. But in the 1920s Jewish residents began to scatter to other parts of Manhattan, to the outer boroughs, and to other cities. Now nearly a century later, Jews are returning uptown to a gentrified Harlem. The Jews of Harlem follows Jews into, out of, and back into this renowned metropolitan neighborhood over the course of a century and a half. It analyzes the complex set of forces that brought several generations of central European, East European, and Sephardic Jews to settle there. It explains the dynamics that led Jews to exit this part of Gotham as well as exploring the enduring Jewish presence uptown after it became overwhelmingly black and decidedly poor. And it looks at the beginnings of Jewish return as part of the transformation of New York City in our present era. The Jews of Harlem contributes much to our understanding of Jewish and African American history in the metropolis as it highlights the ever-changing story of America’s largest city. With The Jews of Harlem, the beginning of Dunlap’s hoped-for resurfacing of this neighborhood’s history is underway. Its contemporary story merits telling even as the memories of what Jewish Harlem once was warrants recall.

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York (State) --- نيويورك (State) --- ولاية نيويورك --- Wilāyat Niyū Yūrk --- Штат Нью-Ёрк --- Нью-Ёрк (State) --- Ню Йорк (State) --- Nova York (State) --- С̧ӗнӗ Йорк (State) --- Śĕnĕ Ĭork (State) --- Efrog Newydd (State) --- Kin Yótʼááh Deezʼá Hahoodzo --- Nííyóó Hahoodzo --- New Yorgi osariik --- Νέα Υόρκη (State) --- Nea Yorkē (State) --- Πολιτεία της Νέας Υόρκης --- Politeia tēs Neas Yorkēs --- Nueva York (State) --- Estado de Nueva York --- Nov-Jorkio --- Ŝtato de Nov-Jorkio --- État de New York --- Nua-Eabhrac (State) --- York Noa (State) --- Eabhraig Nuadh (State) --- Estado de Nova York --- Néu-Yok (State) --- Шин Йорк (State) --- Shin Ĭork (State) --- 뉴욕 주 --- Nyuyok-ju --- 뉴욕 (State) --- Nyuyok (State) --- Nuioka (State) --- Nú Yọk (State) --- Tchiaq York (State) --- New York Isifunda --- New York-fylki --- ניו יורק (State) --- מדינת ניו יורק --- Medinat Nyu Yorḳ --- Stat Evrek Nowydh --- Evrek Nowydh (State) --- Nou Yòk (State) --- Novum Eboracum (State) --- N̦ujorka (State) --- Niujorko valstija --- Niujorkas (State) --- Niorche (State) --- Њујорк (State) --- Njujork (State) --- Yancuīc York (State) --- ニューヨーク州 --- Nyū Yōku-shū --- ニューヨーク (State) --- Nyū Yōku (State) --- New York (Colony) --- New York (City) --- Ni︠u︡ Ĭork (N.Y.) --- Novi Jork (N.Y.) --- Nova Iorque (N.Y.) --- Nyu-Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Nu Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Nyuyok (N.Y.) --- Nuyorḳ (N.Y.) --- New York City (N.Y.) --- Niyū Yūrk (N.Y.) --- Niyūyūrk (N.Y.) --- Niu-yüeh (N.Y.) --- Nowy Jork (N.Y.) --- City of New York (N.Y.) --- New York Stad (N.Y.) --- نيويورك (N.Y.) --- Táva Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Nyu-York Şähäri (N.Y.) --- Нью-Йорк (N.Y.) --- Горад Нью-Ёрк (N.Y.) --- Horad Nʹi︠u︡-I︠O︡rk (N.Y.) --- Нью-Ёрк (N.Y.) --- Ню Йорк (N.Y.) --- Nova York (N.Y.) --- Çĕнĕ Йорк (N.Y.) --- Śĕnĕ Ĭork (N.Y.) --- Dakbayan sa New York (N.Y.) --- Dinas Efrog Newydd (N.Y.) --- Efrog Newydd (N.Y.) --- Nei Yarrick Schtadt (N.Y.) --- Nei Yarrick (N.Y.) --- Νέα Υόρκη (N.Y.) --- Nea Yorkē (N.Y.) --- Ciudad de Nueva York (N.Y.) --- Novjorko (N.Y.) --- Nouvelle York (N.Y.) --- Nua-Eabhrac (N.Y.) --- Cathair Nua-Eabhrac (N.Y.) --- Caayr York Noa (N.Y.) --- York Noa (N.Y.) --- Eabhraig Nuadh (N.Y.) --- Baile Eabhraig Nuadh (N.Y.) --- Нью Йорк балhсн (N.Y.) --- Nʹi︠u︡ Ĭork balḣsn (N.Y.) --- Шин Йорк (N.Y.) --- Shin Ĭork (N.Y.) --- 뉴욕 (N.Y.) --- Lungsod ng New York (N.Y.) --- Tchiaq York Iniqpak (N.Y.) --- Tchiaq York (N.Y.) --- New York-borg (N.Y.) --- Nuova York (N.Y.) --- ניו יורק (N.Y.) --- New York Lakanbalen (N.Y.) --- Lakanabalen ning New York (N.Y.) --- Evrek Nowydh (N.Y.) --- Nouyòk (N.Y.) --- Bajarê New Yorkê (N.Y.) --- New Yorkê (N.Y.) --- Mueva York (N.Y.) --- Sivdad de Mueva York (N.Y.) --- סיבֿדאד די מואיבֿה יורק (N.Y.) --- Sivdad de Muevah Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- מואיבֿה יורק (N.Y.) --- Muevah Yorḳ (N.Y.) --- Novum Eboracum (N.Y.) --- Neo-Eboracum (N.Y.) --- Civitas Novi Eboraci (N.Y.) --- Ņujorka (N.Y.) --- Niujorkas (N.Y.) --- Niujorko miestas (N.Y.) --- Niuiork (N.Y.) --- Њујорк (N.Y.) --- Njujork (N.Y.) --- Bandar Raya New York (N.Y.) --- Bandaraya New York (N.Y.) --- Nuoba Iorque (N.Y.) --- Нью-Йорк хот (N.Y.) --- Nʹi︠u︡-Ĭork khot (N.Y.) --- Āltepētl Yancuīc York (N.Y.) --- Niej-York (N.Y.) --- ニューヨーク (N.Y.) --- Nyū Yōku (N.Y.) --- ニューヨーク市 (N.Y.) --- Nyū Yōku-shi (N.Y.) --- NYC (N.Y.) --- N.Y.C. 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