Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical
and theoretical needs of college and high school instructors offering a unit or a full course
on the Harlem Renaissance. In this collection many of the field's leading scholars address a
wide range of issues and primary materials: the role of slave narrative in shaping individual
and collective identity the long-recognized centrality of women writers editors and critics
within the «New Negro» movement the role of the visual arts and «popular» forms in the
dialogue about race and cultural expression and tried-and-true methods for bringing students
into contact with the movement's poetry prose and visual art. Teaching the Harlem Renaissance
is meant to be an ongoing resource for scholars and teachers as they devise a syllabus prepare
a lecture or lesson plan or simply learn more about a particular Harlem Renaissance writer or
text.
