1000-PIECE JIGSAW - Piece together the world of 20th-century Harlem and fill the gaps in your knowledge as you go with a comprehensive poster guide AUTHORITATIVE TEXT - Text by Professor Davarian L. Baldwin, urbanist, historian and cultural critic THE PERFECT GIFT - Die-cut pieces, sturdy box, and illustrated poster for maximum gift appeal AMAZING ARTWORK - Noa Denmon's intricately drawn cityscape is bursting with minute detail GOOD SIZE - Completed puzzle measures 48.5 x 68 cm (19 x 27 in.) Step back in history to one of New York's most vibrant moments in this jigsaw puzzle abuzz with the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Set in Harlem in the first decades of the twentieth century, the puzzle includes such famous names as Langston Hughes, Fannie Hurst, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, Josephine Baker, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Gladys Bentley. From fine artists and musicians to novelists, poets, and thinkers, The World of the Harlem Renaissance is a who's who of people who laid the foundations of New York culture in the twentieth century...

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism. Pushing the traditional boundaries of the Harlem Renaissance to new frontiers, Baldwin identifies a fresh model of urban culture rich with politics, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship. Baldwin explores an abundant archive of cultural formations where an array of white observers, black cultural producers, critics, activists, reformers, and black migrant consumers converged in what he terms a ""market-place intellectual life."" Here the thoughts and lives of Madam C. J. Walker, Oscar Micheaux, Andrew ""Rube"" Foster, Elder Lucy Smith, Jack Johnson, and Thomas Dorsey emerge as individual expressions of a much wider spectrum of black political and intellectual possibilities. By placing consumer-based amusements alongside the more formal arenas of church and academe, Baldwin suggests important new directions for both the historical study and the constructive future of ideas and politics in American life.