Harlem Renaissance in the American West

Bruce A. Glasrud is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, East Bay, and retired Dean of the School of arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University. Cary D. Wintz is Professor of History at Texas Southern University. Together Cary Wintz and Bruce Glasrud are the editors of African Americans and the Presidency (Routledge).

"While most treatments of the renaissance period focus on the Eastern Seaboard, the impact of the renaissance on the West and Southwest have been neglected. Editors Glasrud and Wintz and the contributors to this collection do a superb job of filling in this gap...Summing Up: Essential." - C. H. Allen, Shenandoah University, CHOICE"This is an amazing collection of essays that fundamentally reshapes our understanding of an era of creativity and change that is usually seen through the lens of New York by recasting our scholarly sights westward. Not only does this work enhance our understanding of the Renaissance’s impact on urban centers like Los Angeles, Denver and Kansas City but it deftly broadens our gaze to include the impact and contributions of communities as diverse as Seattle, Laramie and Minneapolis. This landmark publication marks a profound shift in the interpretation of what will never again be seen as a simply a Harlem Renaissance." - Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, is the author of Black Angelenos: The African American in Los Angeles, 1850-1950"Cary Wintz and Bruce Glasrud have assembled a long overdue and yet remarkably revealing anthology on the Harlem Renaissance in the West. The authors convincingly establish the Renaissance as part of a national literary and artistic movement with roots in places as disparate as Lawrence, Kansas, Silver City, New Mexico, and Boise, Idaho." - Quintard Taylor, Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History, University of Washington

• CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsIntroduction The Harlem Renaissance in the WestCary D. Wintz and Bruce A. GlasrudChapters1. Harlem in HoustonCharles Orson Cook2. North Texas’ Black Art and Literature During the 1920s and 1930s: "The Current Is Much Stronger"Michael Phillips3. The Western Black Renaissance in the Kansas City RegionMarc Rice4. The New Negro Renaissance in Los Angeles, 1920-1940Douglas Flamming5. "All God’s Children Got Swing": The Black Renaissance in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1906-1941Douglas Henry Daniels6. Harlem Renaissance in Oklahoma Jean Van Delinder7. The New Negro Renaissance in Omaha and Lincoln, 1910-1940Richard M. Breaux8. Harlem Renaissance West: Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Twin Cities of MinnesotaCarolyn Wedin9. The San Antonio/Austin Renaissance: Where "the Daddies of Jazz" Remembered the AlamoJeanette N. Passty10. The Black Renaissance in the Desert SouthwestBruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz11. Harlem Renaissance in Denver George H. Junne, Jr.12. Black Renaissance in Helena and Laramie: Hatched on Top of the Rocky MountainsCharlotte Hinger13. A Renaissance in Seattle and PortlandKimberley Mangun14. Harlem Renaissance in San Diego: New Negroes and CommunityCharles P. ToombsHarlem Renaissance in the West: A Selected BibliographyContributorsIndex