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What was the Harlem Renaissance and when did it take place?
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It was a literary, musical, and artistic peak for AFrican Americans in the 1920s.
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Why did African Americans come to Harlem?
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They were looking for economic and personal freedom.
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Explain the tough times of 1919.
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"Red Summer" which had many anti-black riots in over 26 cities.
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Explain the tough times of 1920.
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KKK membership was over 4 million people.
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What was the Cotton Club and why was it important?
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Popular night club which both blacks and whites attended.
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What was the "New Negro"? Who coined the phrase?
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The New Negro was someone who claimed the right to define themselves and defend themselves; PRIDE. The phrase was coined by Alain Locke.
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Describe the characteristics of jazz.
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Syncopated rhythms, self-expression, improvisation, distortion in melody and harmony. Influenced by African Caribbean, Spanish, and French music. Originated in New Orleans.
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Langston Hughes
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Wrote The Weary Blues (1925), Praises blackness, embraced common people as subject. Blended blues and jazz into work.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Raised in Florida. Trained in anthropology at Barnard. Love of black language and manners. Says African Americans are complete human beings.
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James Weldon Johnson. What did he write?
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My City.
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Who wrote "I, too"?
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Langston Hughes.
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Who wrote "Harlem"?
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Langston Hughes.
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Who wrote "The Weary Blues"?
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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.
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What ended the Harlem Renaissance?
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The Great Depression.
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Explain "My City" by James Weldon Johnson.
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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.
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Who wrote "When the Negro was in Vogue"?
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Langston Hughes
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Who wrote "Theme for English B"
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Langston Hughes
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Who wrote "Any Human to Another"?
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Countee Cullen
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Who wrote "How it Feels to be Colored Me"?
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Explain what happens to Zora in "How it Feels to be Colored Me".
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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.
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Jean Toomer
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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.
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Bontemps
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Wrote "The Story of the Negro" and was a professor at Harlem University.
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Define mood.
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Emotional atmosphere a writer creates for a reader.
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What poem is about what the author will and will not miss about city life?
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"My City" by James Weldon Johnson
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Define voice.
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A writer's unique use of language that allows a reader to "hear" a human personality in his or her writing.
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What is the mood for "I, Too"
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Sadness, a longing for equality
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What is the mood for "Harlem"
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Disgust, foreshadowing of an explosion to come
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"The Weary Blues"
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Soulful, more content than the others
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