The subsidiary paperback rights for this book have been granted by AMS
Press, Inc. This completely revised edition is an expansion of The Harlem
Renaissance Re-examined, Vol. 2 of the Georgia State Literary Studies Series.
The revised and expanded version has been completely re-set and includes two
new essays, a portfolio of photographs, and a chronology as well as a com-
pletely revised and updated bibliography.

For the permission to reprint the photographs of Cullen, Du Bois, Hughes,
Hurston, Waters, and West, thanks is extended to the Estate of Carl Van Vechten,
Joseph Solomon, Executor. Edward Steichen's photograph of Robeson is re-
printed courtesy of Joanna Steichen. Further thanks for the photographs re-
printed in this volume goes to Regina Andrews, Griffith J. Davis, and the
Harold Jackman Countee Cullen Memorial Collection at Atlanta University.

Blues, a 1929 oil by Archibald Motley, Jr., was executed in Paris while he
was there on a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Born in New
Orleans in 1891 and a virtual lifelong resident of Chicago, Motley has been
termed America's first urban black painter. (Photograph courtesy of Archie
Motley.)

The assistance of the English Department of Georgia State University; the
expertise of Leigh Kirkland, who saw the book through its preparation as a
camera-ready project; and the work done by several graduate students includ-
ing Michael Newman, David Remy, and, especially, Petra Dreiser, is greatly
appreciated. The new contributions by colleagues Carolyn C. Denard and Jane
Kuenz have added to the usefulness of this edition.

The co-editor, Robert A. Russ, who did the bibliography for the first edition
combed the original volume during the revision and proved to be invaluable as
this second project unfolded.

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