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The Harlem Renaissance

1920’s & 1930’s

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Cultural Times•Development of the African American middle class

•WWI created jobs in the North

•Development of African American literature, art, and music

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Attitude of the Times

•Artistic expression•Racial pride•Social and political equality•Times led to great appreciation and awareness of African American culture

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Music and Art•Means of expressing:–African roots–modern struggles–new freedoms

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Music•Jazz and Blues–Louis Armstrong–Duke Ellington

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The Banjo LessonHenry Ossawa Tanner

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JeunessePalmer Hayden

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Chain GangWilliam H. Johnson

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Literature•Many held to cultural language

roots–Gullah

•Hopes to challenge racial prejudices

•Freedom to express struggles•Motivation to overcome

obstacles

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Harlem

•Housing executives planned to create neighborhoods in Harlem designed specifically for white workers who wanted to commute into the city.

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Harlem, cont.•Developers grew overambitious, however, and housing grew more rapidly than the transportation necessary to bring residents into the downtown area. The once exclusive district was abandoned by the white middle-class. Harlem landlords began renting to black tenants.

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•As a result, African-Americans began moving to Harlem en masse; between 1900 and 1920 the number of blacks in the New York City neighborhood doubled.

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Claude McKay•Originally from Jamaica •Began writing at age of 10•Famous journalist

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McKay’s Works•America•If We Must Die•Enslaved

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Countee Cullen•Grew up in NYC and Baltimore

•Adopted by powerful minister

•Became influential through his writing–Influenced English Romantics

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Cullen’s Works•Tableau•Incident

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar

•Born to slave parents in KY

•One of first recognized Af.Am. poets

•Befriended Douglass in Chicago

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Dunbar’s Works•The Lesson•Sympathy•We Wear the Mask

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Arna Bontemps•Friend of Langston

Hughes•Born of Creole

parents•Nashville connection!

Bontemps worked for many years as the librarian at Fisk.

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Bontemps’ WorksGod Sends Sunday (1931)

Black Thunder (1936—historical novel)

Personals (3rd ed., 1973 collection of poetry)

The Harlem Renaissance Remembered (1972)

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Langston Hughes

•Worked hard to pay for college

•Ambitious with poetry

•Influenced by Walt Whitman

•Wrote for musical audience

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Hughes’ Works•Weary Blues•Dream Deferred•I, Too•Mother to Son

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PresentationsYour assignment for this unit:–Create a handout on one poem from the packet.

–Handout includes your poem (including author), and a brief explication of the poem.

–You will do a formal reading of your poem and then briefly summarize your poetic analysis.


Harlem Renaissance Where: New York City, Harlem When: 1920-1930 Why: A safe place for African Americans to explore new identities as free women and men.

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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. What is it? The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American social thought which was expressed through.

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African American soldiers in WWI part 2

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The Harlem Renaissance. What was the Harlem Renaissance? African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 30s African American cultural movement.

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Harlem Renaissance - Oklahoma City Museum of Art · “Harlem Renaissance,” focusing on the themes that emerged in African American art during the nineteen-twenties and thirties

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The Harlem Renaissance - Buckeye · PDF fileClaude McKay Zore Neale ... The Harlem Renaissance was the rebirth of literature and culture for African Americans. ... "TimeLine 1918 -

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The Harlem Renaissance Artists. Introduction The Harlem Renaissance was an expression of African-American social thought and culture that resulted from.

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Harlem Renaissance. What It Was Harlem Renaissance –A flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily.

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L5&6: The Harlem Renaissance Equality and Hierarchy: The African American Experience

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The Harlem Renaissance Harlem, NY – 1920’s An upsurge in African American cultural expression.

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The Role of Women and African Americans in WWI...African Americans and WWI Black leaders saw the war as an opportunity for advancement World War I did not bring significant gains navy

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The Harlem Renaissance · 2019. 1. 15. · •Harlem Renaissance •Claude McKay •Langston Hughes •Paul Robeson •Louis Armstrong •Duke Ellington •Bessie Smith African-American

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Rafia Zafar Professor of English, African American, and ... · Harlem Renaissance. Five Novels of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. ... (“Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance”, pp.

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