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Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking At The Harlem Renaissance Through Poems

by Nikki Giovanni · 1996

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A remarkable collection of poetry by such authors as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, with commentary and a discussion of the development of African American arts known as the Harlem Renaissance.

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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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