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Shimmy shimmy shimmy like my sister Kate : looking at the Harlem Renaissance through poems / edited by Nikki Giovanni.

Giovanni, Nikki. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0805034943
  • ISBN: 9780805034943
  • Physical Description: xii, 186 pages
  • Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Author's Note xi -- Song of the Smoke / W. E. B. Du Bois 17 -- Creation / James Weldon Johnson 20 -- We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar 27 -- Sympathy 28 -- A Negro Love Song 31 -- If We Must Die / Claude McKay 33 -- Dark Symphony (1-6) / Melvin B. Tolson 35 -- Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes 42 -- Dinner Guest: Me 44 -- Harlem 46 -- a poem (for langston hughes) / Nikki Giovanni 152 -- Nikki-Rosa 154 -- It Is Deep / Carolyn M. Rodgers 157 -- it's not so good to be born a girl/sometimes / Ntozake Shange 160 -- Biographical Notes 165 -- Books for Further Reading 175 -- General Index 179 -- Index of First Lines 185.

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Subject:
American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans > Poetry.
Harlem Renaissance.
Genre:
Poetry.

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