Black Lit. Midterm Term Review

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The Harlem Renaissance

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Black cultural movement from the 1920's to the 1930's, that featured art and philosophy which rejected the stereotyped black experience.

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation.

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Brown vs. the Board of Education

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Repealed Plessy vs. Ferguson; made racial segregation unconstitutional.

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Frederick Douglass

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Wrote the first autobiography of a black man as written by a black man. Slave narrative.

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Jim Crow

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State and local laws mandating racial segregation in the south.

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Black academian who wrote that blacks must be better educated in order to rise up out of their situation.

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The Crisis

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Official magazine of the NAACP, founded by Du Bois, and which focused on black issues.

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The Souls of Black Folk

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Essay by Du Bois on the duality of self in the black man.

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Alain Locke

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American writer, philosopher, and so called "Father of the Harlem Renaissance"

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The New Negro

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An anthology, by Alain Locke, of black writers, essayists, and philosophers.

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James Weldon Johnson

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Wrote God's Tombones which emulated the black folk sermon in style and centered the religious narrative around the blacks.

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Louie Armstrong

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Famous jazz trumpeter and singer in the 20's onward.

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Bessie Smith

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The most popular female jazz singer of the 20's and 30's

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Great Migration

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The flood of black people who fled the south and moved to the north after reconstruction.

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Great War

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World War I

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Aaron Douglas

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Black painter who focused eurocentric styles onto the african american

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William Johnson

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Famous painter whose work was largely characterized by his folk style depictions of the african american community.

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Countee Cullen

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A major black poet during the harlem renaissance. Characterized by his classical style. "Yet Do I Marvel"

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Claude McKay

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Jamaican-American poet and writer during the harlem renaissance. "Home to Harlem"

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Blues

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A descendant of black folk music, featuring a call and response style, as well as simplified musical progressions.

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Jazz

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An descendant of the blues coupled with modern city life. Features often intense and complex musical progressions.

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Call and Response

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A style which features a "call," which can be a verse or line or note, which is then responded to by another verse or line or note. Popular in the blues.

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Booker T. Washington

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Black intellectual who believe the way for the black community to rise out of their situation was through money and work.

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North Atlantic Slave Trade

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A trade route which ran from England to Africa to the Caribbeans and to the United States. The route would pick up slaves in Africa and sell them either in the Caribbeans or the United States, and then take the products produced there to the UK, where they would sell it and buy more slaves.

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The Middle Passage

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The passage from Africa to the Caribbean or the United States. Refers to the conditions in which the slaves lived.

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God's Trombones

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James Weldon Johnson, black folk sermons. Centering the religious text in the black experience.

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Poetry of Langston Hughes

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Features the elements of jazz and blues as well as many different voices of the black community.

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston, the story of a black woman's life in the south and how she eventually become free. (all after slavery)

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Native Son

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Richard Wright, the story of a black man living in the Chicago ghetto and how after he kills a white woman, goes into a downward spiral.

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Invisible Man

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Ralph Ellison, the story of a black man living in many places, but eventually New York. The pressures of society on him, and how he is a tool for others uses. He eventually hides out in an apartment building for whites only.