Emily Allen Williams is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of the Virgin Islands.

This study examines literary and cultural developments in the community of Harlem during its renaissance period in the 1920s. The contributors analyze the Harlem Renaissance from a number of angles by investigating the works of literary writers, journalists, and sociologists of the period and connect the era to present-day Harlem.

Preface, Emily Allen Williams
Introduction, Reginald Martin
Part I: Writing the Harlem Renaissance: Spatial Representations and Memorandums of [Mis] Understanding
Chapter 1: The Greatest Joy in Life: Geraldyn Dismond's Transformative Coverage of the Hamilton Lodge Ball, Jacqueline C. Jones
Chapter 2: Towards a Trans-Atlantic Approach: Tracing the Modernist Psychodrama and Wasteland Critique-the Poetry of the Political Imagination, Christopher Varlack
Chapter 3: The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the Development of the African American Voice within Literature, Mary Lynn Chambers
Part II: Blackness, Beauty, and Interracial Posturing: Sociological and Literary Representations
Chapter 4: DuBois and Larsen: The Convergence of Contrasting Literary Genres, Imani Michelle Scott
Chapter 5: Jean Toomer's Cane in the Harlem Renaissance: Modernity, Individuality, and Language, Gerardo Del Guercio
Chapter 6: In Search of Our Mother's Dignity: The Plight of African American Women in Selected Harlem Renaissance Literature, Devona Mallory
Chapter 7: Revisiting the "Mulatto" Stereotype in Passing and The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man, Antonia Iliadou