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- What was the Harlem Renaissance and when did it take place?
- It was a literary, musical, and artistic peak for AFrican Americans in the 1920s.
- Why did African Americans come to Harlem?
- They were looking for economic and personal freedom.
- Explain the tough times of 1919.
- "Red Summer" which had many anti-black riots in over 26 cities.
- Explain the tough times of 1920.
- KKK membership was over 4 million people.
- What was the Cotton Club and why was it important?
- Popular night club which both blacks and whites attended.
- What was the "New Negro"? Who coined the phrase?
- The New Negro was someone who claimed the right to define themselves and defend themselves; PRIDE. The phrase was coined by Alain Locke.
- Describe the characteristics of jazz.
- Syncopated rhythms, self-expression, improvisation, distortion in melody and harmony. Influenced by African Caribbean, Spanish, and French music. Originated in New Orleans.
- Langston Hughes
- Wrote The Weary Blues (1925), Praises blackness, embraced common people as subject. Blended blues and jazz into work.
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Raised in Florida. Trained in anthropology at Barnard. Love of black language and manners. Says African Americans are complete human beings.
- James Weldon Johnson. What did he write?
- My City.
- Who wrote "I, too"?
- Langston Hughes.
- Who wrote "Harlem"?
- Langston Hughes.
- Who wrote "The Weary Blues"?
- Langston Hughes
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What work and author is this from:
"They send me to eat in the kitchen."
"I'll be at the table when company comes"
"I, too, sing America" - "I, too" by Langston Hughes
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What work and author are these lines from?
"What happens toa dream deferred?"
"Does it sink like rotten meat?"
"Maybe it just sags like a heavy load" - "Harlem" by Langston Hughes
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What work and author are these lines from?
"In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone"
"He slept like a rock or a man that's dead" - "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes.
- What ended the Harlem Renaissance?
- The Great Depression.
- Explain "My City" by James Weldon Johnson.
- In the first stanza, Johnson explains what he will not miss about the city when he dies. In the second stanza, he explains what he will miss when he dies.
- Who wrote "When the Negro was in Vogue"?
- Langston Hughes
- Who wrote "Theme for English B"
- Langston Hughes
- Who wrote "Any Human to Another"?
- Countee Cullen
- Who wrote "How it Feels to be Colored Me"?
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Explain what happens to Zora in "How it Feels to be Colored Me".
- Zora lives in a exclusively colored town. She is then forced to move into a white town. She says "she is not tragically colored" because her race does not make her a better or worse person. Jazz music affected her greatly. she uses a "stuffed bags" metaphor at the end of the work.
- Jean Toomer
- Mixed race. Attended all black and all white schools at different points in his life. Famous for writing "Cane" which is a collection of poems about blacks in the south.
- Bontemps
- Wrote "The Story of the Negro" and was a professor at Harlem University.
- Define mood.
- Emotional atmosphere a writer creates for a reader.
- What poem is about what the author will and will not miss about city life?
- "My City" by James Weldon Johnson
- Define voice.
- A writer's unique use of language that allows a reader to "hear" a human personality in his or her writing.
- What is the mood for "I, Too"
- Sadness, a longing for equality
- What is the mood for "Harlem"
- Disgust, foreshadowing of an explosion to come
- "The Weary Blues"
- Soulful, more content than the others