The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Chronology
	A Note on the Text
	Introduction: Wallace Thurman and the Harlem Renaissance	1
Pt. 1	Essays on Harlem	29
	Harlem: A Vivid Word Picture of the World's Greatest Negro City	32
	Harlem Facets	35
	Negro Life in New York's Harlem: A Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section	39
	Harlem Directory: Where to Go and What to Do When in Harlem	63
	Harlemese	64
	Few Know Real Harlem, the City of Surprises: Quarter Million Negroes Form a Moving, Colorful Pageant of Life	66
	The Bump (A Dance They Do in Harlem)	71
	Harlem House Rent Parties	73
	Odd Jobs in Harlem	74
Pt. 2	Social Essays and Journalism	79
	Christmas: Its Origin and Significance	82
	In the Name of Purity	84
	Quoth Brigham Young - This Is the Place	86
	Autobiographical Statement	91
	Description of a Male Tuberculosis Ward	92
Pt. 3	Correspondence	95
	Letters to Langston Hughes	104
	Letters to William Jourdan Rapp	132
	Letters to W. E. B. Du Bois, Claude McKay, Alain Locke, and Granville Hicks	163
	Letters to Harold Jackman	168
	Letters to Dorothy West	171
Pt. 4	Literary Essays and Reviews	177
	Review of Black Harvest	182
	A Thrush at Eve with an Atavistic Wound: Review of Flight	183
	Editorial, The Messenger	184
	Review of Blues: An Anthology	185
	Review of Heloise and Abelard	187
	Review of Teeftallow	189
	Notes - Short Review of Flight	190
	A Stranger at the Gates: A Review of Nigger Heaven	191
	Fire Burns: A Department of Comment	193
	Negro Artists and the Negro	195
	Nephews of Uncle Remus	200
	Negro Poets and Their Poetry	205
	Editorial Essay, Harlem	216
	High, Low, Past, and Present: Review of The Walls of Jericho, Quicksand, and Adventures of an African Slaver	218
	Langston Hughes Turns from Poetry to the Novel to Give a Sincere Picture of Negro Life in America	221
	Books to Read - Review of Southern Road	224
	Review of Infants of the Spring	226
Pt. 5	Aunt Hagar's Children	229
	Author's Preface	234
	Notes on a Stepchild	235
	This Negro Literary Renaissance	241
	Tribute	251
	Frederick Douglass: The Black Emancipator	253
	Booker T. Washington	269
	Marcus Garvey	272
	Draw Your Own Conclusions	280
	The Perpetual Bugaboo	281
	The Coming Revolution	282
	Terpsichore in Harlem	284
Pt. 6	Poems and Short Stories	289
	The Last Citadel	291
	Confession	291
	God's Edict	291
	Untitled	292
	Frustration	292
	On Meeting a Genius (To Jean Toomer)	293
	Stars	294
	Grist in the Mill	294
	Cordelia the Crude	301
Pt. 7	Plays	305
	Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem	313
	Casting and Directing Harlem	370
	Detouring Harlem to Times Square	371
	Harlem as Educational Drama	372
	My Collaborator	374
	Two Playwrights Look at Harlem	374
	The Writing of Harlem: The Story of a Strange Collaboration	376
	Jeremiah the Magnificent	378
Pt. 8	Excerpts from the Novels	441
	The Blacker the Berry	449
	Infants of the Spring	462
	The Interne	485
	Bibliography	495
	Photo Credits	499
	Index of Names	501
	Index of Works	507