BrownGirl Speaks
  • Home
  • blog
  • Books
  • About Me
  • Contact Me

Classics Circuit Harlem Renaissance Tour

2/3/2010

 
As we all know, February is Black History Month. I knew I'd want to do something special at BrownGirl BookSpeak to celebrate. Several months ago, I mapped out some glorious plans to host a challenge for this month with a Harlem Renaissance theme but decided to try my hand at hosting a year long challenge at the eleventh hour. As fate would have it, the Classics Circuit had also chosen the Harlem Renaissance as its February theme so I was more than happy to join. By the way, I love the concept of that blog in general.

The Harlem Renaissance is such an important period in literary history and history in general. The brilliance of the writing of the time, in my opinion, is the way it all showed that the Black experience was no longer monolithic or static. And neither was the writing itself. More attention to creativity through various writing styles became apparent while often still providing a social and political platform.

Be sure to follow the Classics Circuit Harlem Renaissance tour all this month. I'll be reading a few books from the period to celebrate Black History Month.


Tour Schedule
February 1, 2010   Shelf Love The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

February 2, 2010   Evening All Afternoon Cane by Jean Toomer

February 3, 2010   Daily Words and Acts Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

February 4, 2010   Paperback_Reader Passing and/or Quicksand by Nella Larsen

February 4, 2010   BookNAround The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories by Charles Chesnutt

February 5, 2010   A Striped Armchair The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson

February 5, 2010   Moored at Sea Overview: The relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude movement of the French Colonies that grew from it.

February 6, 2010   Joyfully Retired His Eye is On the Sparrow by Ethel Waters (autobiography) and the life of Ethel Waters

February 7, 2010   Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-Holic Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes or The Conjure Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher

February 8, 2010   Sparks’ Notes Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset

February 9, 2010   The Zen Leaf Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston

February 9, 2010   Breathing Space The New Negro edited by Alain Locke

February 10, 2010  Books and Chocolate Passing by Nella Larsen

February 11, 2010   Laura’s Reviews Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

February 11, 2010   Musings The Ways of White Folks: Stories by Langston Hughes

February 12, 2010   Bibliosue Home to Harlem by Claude McKay

February 13, 2010   things mean a lot Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston

February 14, 2010   eclectic / eccentric Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and an overview of African-American homosexuality during the Renaissance

February 15, 2010   Nonsuch Book Poetry of the Renaissance

February 16, 2010   Notes from the North The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

February 17, 2010   Becky’s Book Reviews Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston

February 17, 2010   Notorious Spinks Talks Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance by Bruce Nugent and the movie Brother to Brother

February 18, 2010   The Things We Read Passing by Nella Larsen

February 18, 2010   Rebecca Reads Black No More by George Schuyler

February 19, 2010   Reviews by Lola Passing by Nella Larsen

February 20, 2010  Gimme More Books! The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher

February 21, 2010   book-a-rama Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

February 22, 2010   1330v Ebony Rising: Short Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance

February 23, 20101  BrownGirl BookSpeak There Is Confusion by Jessie Fauset

February 24, 2010    Wuthering Expectations The Conjure Woman by Charles Chesnutt

February 25, 2010    Linus’s Blanket Stories by Zora Neale Hurston

February 25, 2010    Michelle’s Masterful Musings When Washington Was in Vogue by Edward Christopher Williams

February 26, 2010    My Friend Amy Quicksand by Nella Larson

February 27, 2010    Bookgazing Gentleman Jigger by Bruce Nugent

February 28, 2010    BookLust The House Behind the Cedars by Charles Chesnutt
Leola link
2/3/2010 08:57:22 pm

Love the layout for Black History Month. Thanks.

Amy @ My Friend Amy link
2/5/2010 10:08:09 am

I'm very excited for this because I don't know a lot of these authors. :) Looking forward to it.

Sheila DeChantal link
2/22/2010 01:10:40 am

I like the books you are mentioning here. This one sounds wonderful!


Comments are closed.
    Authors and publishers feel free to check out my review policy and contact me  regarding review requests.
    The Book Depository
    Picture

    My Amazon.com Wish List

    Picture

    Archives

    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    November 2009
    October 2009
    September 2009
    August 2009
    July 2009

    Categories

    All
    African Diaspora
    And The Word Was Spoken
    Asian Authors
    Author Interviews
    Banned Books
    Blog Tours
    Bookish
    Book Reviews
    Book Tours
    Challenges
    Diversity Roll Call
    Giveaways
    Guest Post
    Kid Lit
    Latino Authors
    Native American Authors
    Nonfiction
    Quirky Brown
    Reading Africa
    The Box Is Hot
    Women Writers
    Writing
    Ya Fiction


    Picture
    Sign Up
    Suggestion List
    First Quarter Reviews
    Second Quarter Reviews
    Third Quarter Reviews
    Read 17/12

    Picture
    Read 5/54
    Picture
    Read 5/8
    Read 2/5
    Picture
    Read 1/4
    2010 Social Justice Reading Challenge
    Read 0/12
    Picture
    Read 1/7
    Read 26/25

    Book Blogs

    A Striped Armchair
    Authors In Color
    Black Eyed Susans
    Book Blab
    Book On the Train
    Brown Paper
    Color Online
    For the Love of Books
    In Spring It Is The Dawn
    Kinna Reads
    Lotus Reads
    Love of Literature
    Notorious Spinks Talks
    Page247
    Reading In Color
    Reads4Pleasure
    Rhapsody In Books
    The Brown Bookshelf
    The Feminist Texican [Reads]
    The Happy Nappy Bookseller
    With Extra Pulp
    Worducopia

    Authors

    Chimamanda Adichie
    Carleen Brice
    Fledgling
    Junot Diaz
    Jude Dibia
    Petina Gappah
    Tayari Jones
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    Bernice McFadden
    Nnedi's Wahala Zone
    Sonia Sanchez
    Lori L. Tharps
    Alice Walker
    White Readers Meet Black Authors
    Saul Williams
    Jacqueline Woodson
    Read the Printed Word!

    Literary Reviews

    Arts & Letters Daily
    Belletrista
    Mythium Literary Magazine
    NPR Books
    NYT Book Review

    Culture

    The Black Culture Blog
    My American Melting Pot
    The Root
    Feminist Review
    Repeating Islands

    Picture

    Awards, Gotta Love 'Em!



    BrownGirl BookSpeak - Blogged
    Add to Technorati Favorites
    Books Blogs - Blog Catalog Blog Directory

    Blogs Her Color Button


    Top 21 Book Sites






    BBG Button


    indiebound



    Picture
© BrownGirl Speaks 2009 - 2015
  • Home
  • blog
  • Books
  • About Me
  • Contact Me