From Harlem to Hip-Hop:
African-American History, Literature, and Song

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for School Teachers

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Bibliography

Core Texts

Before Institute:

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

New York: Random House, 1969.

Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the

Hip-Hop Generation. New York: Picador Press, 2005.

Huggins, Nathan Irvin and Arnold Rampersad. Harlem Renaissance.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Up to page 51 and pp137-243.

Smethurst, James. The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism

in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.


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