American artists

emphasized the idea that that negro art is just American art. Langston Hughes expressed his opinion through his article “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”, claiming that every art has its own beauty through the confidence of race. Zora Neale Hurston was able to accept her true colors in the article “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” when she realized the day she became colored. Schuyler, Hurston, and Hughes address the similar topic on black people in American society from a black person’s…

Diasporic communities of the South Bronx. With issues with housing, public services, the shrinking job opportunity due to the industrializing city, caused the Artist such as Dj Herc who learned specific trades and vocational skills to develop the means for artistic defiance and ingenuity. Hip hop became a means of expression for African Americans, from teens to adults, as a way to the cope with the hardships of the living in the United States America, instead of participating in gang culture…

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on Nov. 15, 1887 (“Georgia O’Keeffe: About the Painter”). From the age of 13 (Stabb), she knew she wanted to become an artist, and she began her art career in 1905 by studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. She continued her education a year later at the Art Student’s League of New York. After working in Chicago as a commercial artist for a while, she moved to Texas to teach art (“Georgia O’Keeffe: About the Painter”). Eventually she became supervisor of art in Amarillo…

(Bono) Hip-hop first started in the 1970s in the neighborhoods of the New York City Bronx. It immediately became a huge movement in African American culture and soon affected people from all over the world. It spread from one city to many in a matter of months, from movies to music videos, hip-hop was everywhere. It was a statement, a voice for African Americans to speak up against civil rights. Hip-hop along with other kinds of music has helped create a huge movement of slavery and racism.…

did not start to identify or relate to a specific artist or genre until he was older and actually listened to the lyrics of the songs. One of Sam’s favorite aspect of Meek Mill is his style in music. According to an article titled, “Get on the Mic: Recording Studios as Symbolic Spaces in Rap Music” by Geoff Harkness there are three separate vocal tracks when recording rap (Harkness pg. 83). The first vocal track is the main track where the artists rap all the words (Harkness pg. 83). Second is a…

During the early 1900s, many black Americans began to move up north due to the industrial boom, and the need for a larger work force. World War one also made it necessary to ensure all military needs were met. Because of the Great Migration, many northern cities were flooded with black migrants looking for a better way of life. However, once the war ended, and soldiers returned home, competition for jobs and housing became fierce as the economy took a turn. Discrimination and segregation was…

This paper elaborates on the following authors, Alain Locke’s The New Negro, Langston Hughe’s “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” and Zora Nele Hurston’s “How it feels to be colored me,” replied to W.E.B Du Bois theory of double consciousness. W.E.B Du Bois theory of double consciousness describes race relation in America, how blacks can suffer from a damaged self image by looking at themselves as perceived by society and the difficulty of being unified or having one identity. Alain…

people are expected to create while in the confidences of American society without complaining about its condition. Throughout this semester of African American literature, there are three writers who expressed this more than any other and they are Nikki Giovanni, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Langston Hughes. In reading “for Saundra”, “A Red Record”, and “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” I have a greater understanding of black artist long standing struggle of accurately portraying black…

legends are created by being the most relatable artists of their time. There music is able to relate with people outside of their city, their country, their continent. Focusing on the 1990's american public, the late 80’s and early 90's hip­hop movement was one of the biggest cultural influences that affected people across the globe . Discussing artists such as N.W.A, Biggie, Nas and Tupac, the positive and negative impacts can be highlighted to…

telling stories about the young lives on a day-to-day basis. In Chapter 3 rap music is a media for the black community which affects political attitudes, give information, and ideologies. Black Nationalism is presented without the black music produced artist idolize it and it increases the participation and support of Black Nationalism. “This nationalism group focuses on self-reliance, self-determination, and cultural nationalism” (Bonnette 67). These aspects establishes the black ideologies…