5 Best Books on the Harlem Renaissance, selected by Joan Wylie Hall

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance, by James F. Wilson. Michigan, 2010.
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, edited by George Hutchinson. Cambridge, 2007.
Double-take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology, edited by Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey. Rutgers, 2001.
The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters, edited by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar. Johns Hopkins, 2010.
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance (with cd), edited by Cary D. Wintz. Sourcebooks, 2007.

Joan Wylie Hall, lecturer in American literature, University of Mississippi, [email protected]. Author of Shirley Jackson: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne, 1993); editor of Conversations with Audre Lorde (University Press of Mississippi, 2004).