Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992)

Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap

• Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration

• ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-30s

Racial pride Progressive/socialist politics Cross cultural (literature, art, music, theatre)

• Harlem as urban locus of African American life: a “city within a city”

• Black gentility or Africanist primitivism?

Archibald Motley, ‘Saturday Night’ (1935)

East St. Louis Riots, 1917

Los Angeles Riots, 1992

Jazz and Jazz – theme and form