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Street scenes staging the self in immigrant New York, 1880-1924 / by Romeyn, Esther

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Along the streets of Bronzeville : black Chicago's literary landscape / by Schlabach, Elizabeth Schroeder

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In search of Red Buddha higher education in China after Mao Zedong, 1985-1990 / by Street, Nancy Lynch

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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance librarian / by Whitmire, Ethelene, 1968-

Subjects: “…New York Public Library. 135th Street Branch Biography.…”
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Petersburg fin de siècle by Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubled times -- City -- Streets -- Masks -- Death -- Decadence -- Happiness -- Melancholy -- Conclusion.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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The book in the Renaissance by Pettegree, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…The book world before print -- Gutenberg -- Renaissance encounters : the crisis of print -- The creation of a European book market -- Book town Wittenberg -- Luther's legacy -- First with the news -- Polite diversions -- At school -- The literature of conflict -- The search for order -- Market forces -- Science and exploration -- Healing -- Building a library -- Word and the street.…”
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When London was capital of America by Flavell, Julie

Table of Contents: “…An American city in Europe -- The London world of Henry Laurens -- Upstairs, downstairs: master and slave in Georgian London -- English lessons in London: a tale of two teenagers -- Young and rich in fleet street: the decadents abroad -- A Long Island Yankee in the city -- "The handsome Englishman" -- London's American landscape -- Franklin and son in London -- 'The most cautious man I have ever seen': Ben Franklin's London career.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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"Shakin' up" race and gender intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / by Sánchez, Marta Ester

Table of Contents: “…"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo.…”
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Reading publics : New York City's public libraries, 1754-1911 / by Glynn, Tom, 1962-

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Literary Cincinnati the missing chapter / by Brown, Dale Patrick

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