Political Thought in the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Black American History #27

When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, the arts come immediately to mind. But new political theories were also blossoming during this time. We’ve talked about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, but today we’ll get into some other thinkers with different ideas about civil rights, fair labor practices, and Black nationalism.

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Sources
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998).
Keisha N. Blain, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
Cheryl Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
Adam Ewing, Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2014).
Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo E. Martin Jr, Freedom on My Mind: A history of African Americans, with Documents 3rd Edition (Macmillan, 2021).