continued interest in African-American social and
political dilemmas and self-determination. She
continued to publish well after the Harlem Renais-
sance. In 1971 she coedited with Ethel Ray Nance
the Chronology of African Americans in New York,
1621–1966.
Throughout her career and in the years beyond
the Harlem Renaissance, Andrews maintained
close ties to leading race organizations and broad-
ened her influence by participating in groups like
the New York State Commission for Human Rights.
Bibliography
Hatch, James V., and Omanii Abdullah. Black Play-
wrights, 1823–1977: An Annotated Bibliography of
Plays.New York: Bowker, 1977.
Huggins, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance.New York: Ox-
ford University Press, 1973.
Regina Andrews Papers, Schomburg Center for Re-
search in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Antar of Araby Maude Cuney Hare(1930)
A play written by MAUDECUNEYHAREjust six
years before her untimely death due to cancer. In
this work, Hare reflected her long-standing interest
in anthropology and the ways in which African tra-
ditions and perspectives permeated Western cul-
ture. She produced a provocative pan-Africanist
meditation in this romantic drama based on Antar,
a foundational figure in the Arab literary tradition.
In her play, the blackness and low social station of
the dark-skinned slave-poet Antar have thwarted
his ambitions. His frustrations are further high-
lighted when he gains a chieftain’s daughter for his
wife. Hare’s depictions of caste prejudice and the
slave man’s innate noble qualities resonated with
ongoing Harlem Renaissance–era debates about
and representations of caste, prejudice, and black
self-determination as illustrated in other notable
works such as DARKPRINCESSby W. E. B. DUBOIS,
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANEX-COLOUREDMANby
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, and QUICKSAND by
NELLALARSEN.
Bibliography
Kramer, Victor, and Robert Russ, eds. The Harlem Re-
naissance Re-Examined.Troy, N.Y.: Whitson, 1997.
Anthology of American Negro Literature
A series of anthologies published by the Modern
Library. V. F. CALVERTON, a white Marxist intellec-
tual who supported African-American artistic and
literary efforts, edited the first volume, which ap-
peared in 1929.Bibliography
Kramer, Victor, and Robert Russ, eds. The Harlem Re-
naissance Re-Examined.Troy, N.Y.: Whitson, 1997.Anthology of Magazine Verse
A popular anthology that WILLIAM STANLEY
BRAITHWAITE, a Boston poet and journalist, inau-
gurated in 1913. To be chosen for inclusion in the
highly selective journal, which stands as a reliable
index of the 20th-century American poetical tradi-
tion, was an indication of artistic potential and
conferred a measure of success on all who were
published.
Braithwaite believed that it was more produc-
tive to focus on talent than on race. He included a
wide variety of Harlem Renaissance writers in the
annual anthologies but made no effort to privilege
black writers of the period.Anthology of Verse by American Negroes,
AnWhite and Jackson, eds.(1924)
An anthology edited by NEWMANIVEY WHITE
and WALTER CLINTON JACKSON, two white
Southerners who wanted to promote good race re-
lations. The volume, which spanned the black po-
etical tradition, included works by Phillis Wheatley
and more contemporary 20th-century poets like
WILLIAMSTANLEYBRAITHWAITE. Also included
were works by COUNTEECULLEN,GEORGIADOU-
GLASJOHNSON,GEORGEMARGETSON, and JAMES
WELDON JOHNSON. The three-year lag between
the completion of the manuscript in 1921 and its
publication in 1924, however, prevented the edi-
tors from providing a truly current and compre-
hensive set of works by many Harlem Renaissance
writers. The book is an especially good resource
because of its informative biographical profiles of
each poet.Anthology of Verse by American Negroes, An 11