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My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
Simon and Schuster
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 1416534881
EAN: 9781416534884
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From 1920 to 1940, the Harlem Renaissance produced a bright
beacon of light that paved the way for African-Americans all
over the country. The unapologetic writings of W. E. B. Du
Bois and Marcus Garvey, the fervent fiction and poetry of
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, the groundbreaking
art of Aaron Douglas and William H. Johnson, and the
triumphant music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong gave
voice and expression to the thoughts and emotions that Jim
Crow segregation laws had long sought to stifle. In On the Shoulders of Giants, indomitable basketball star
and bestselling author and historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
invites the reader on an extraordinarily personal journey
back to his birthplace, through one of the greatest
political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in our
history, revealing the tremendous impact the Harlem
Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life.
Beginning with the rise of the Harlem Rens as pioneers of
professional basketball, Kareem traces the many streams of
historical influence that converged to create the man he is
today -- the NBA's all-time leading scorer and a veritable
African-American icon. Travel deep into the soul of the Renaissance -- to the night
clubs, restaurants, basketball games, and fabulous parties
that have made footprints in Harlem's history. Meet the
athletes, jazz musicians, comedians, actors, politicians,
entrepreneurs, and writers who not only inspired Kareem's
rise to greatness but an entire nation's. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born in the midst of a cultural
reawakening, carried on the shoulders of athletes trying to
prove there was a lot more at stake than a ball game, men
and women who made music that could break your heart, and
writers and intellectuals who gave voice to not just the
ideals of a movement but the raw emotions. Kareem tells what
it took to get these revolutionaries to Harlem and how they
changed the world. A world that is still riding on the
shoulders of giants.
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