Harlem Globetrotters

that they are equal to men and that they could do what men can do. Fashion reflected the freedom obtained after World War One. 7 The Harlem Renaissance was a period when European artists challenged the traditional values of modern artist through music, artists, and writers with greater freedom of expression. It was also a rebirth of blacks cultural spirit. The Harlem Renaissance also became a new spirit for negro nationalism which allowed…

Beauford Delaney, born in Tennessee in 1901, was an influential Abstract Expressionist artist that worked in New York City until relocating to Paris after World War 2 where he earned the title of “dean of American Negro painters living abroad.” He was even an inspiration to writers like Henry Miller and James Baldwin who described him as being “much admired for the jazzy urgency of both representational and abstract compositions.” Delaney’s paintings started out to be mainly portraits and street…

1. Describe your overall impressions of the play. My overall impression of the play was good. But it was a little boring because we knew what would happen word for word. I think I would have enjoyed the play a little more if we just read the synopsis. The play talks about a lot of issues that are still here today. I would rate this play 7.5/10. 2. What part of the play stood out to you the most? Choose a quote from that part to support your answer. “MAMA: Oh—So now it’s life. Money is…

a crewmen to personal assistant of historian Carter G.Woodson. Hughes then enrolled at Lincoln University earning himself a bachelor’s degree in 1924. After college Hughes moved to Harlem, New York where he established himself till his death. While in Harlem, Hughes became to be known as one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance with his early innovations of then-new literary art called Jazz Poetry. Hughes published many poems that gained national…

The University of Central Florida's theatre program performed Spunk and the Harlem Literati in which I attended on the 22 of January 2016. The musical is based on the play Spunk by Zora Neale Hurston, an adaptation by theatre professor Belinda Boyd and also directed by Mrs. Boyd herself. The play takes place in Harlem during the 1920’s Renaissance in which there is an uprising in writing, poetry, and music amongst the African-American community. Through the use of narration, uplifting energy,…

James Weldon Johnson: biographical sketch James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) made his contribution to society and culture as a civil rights activist and with his creations during the Harlem Renaissance. Among his most famous poems are Lift Every Voice and Sing, which was put to music and is known as the Negro National Anthem. In Having Our Say, Hearth states that James Weldon Johnson was one of many other African Americans at this time who made a difference with their art and…

feelings of anger, distrust, and destruction. It can also lead to isolation and loneliness. But can hate and isolation actually be something positive or even empowering? Claude Mckay was a key figure during the literary movement of the 1920s called the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jamaica, his work encompasses “vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in Jamaica to poems challenging white authority in America.” (McKay) In his poem, The White City, McKay lashes out against the injustice that…

Langston Hughes wrote “Harlem” and Lorraine Hansberry embodies it within the characters dreams in A Raisin in the Sun. The characters and their dreams change and evolve throughout the book. Although Walter looks like a big strong man who supports his family, that is not the case in the beginning of the book. He is dissatisfied with the life he has and dreams of becoming wealthy and providing for his family as the rich people he drives around do and owning his own business. By the end of the book…

Langston Hughes fits in the Harlem Renaissance category because his writings expanded African-American culture and helped demand rights for African-Americans. Langston wrote “I Too” which is about how a darker brother (an African-American) is American too, and he deserves to get the same treatment as everyone else. Moreover, in the story, they do not let the African-American man sit at the table because of his color, but he says he will find the strength to stand up for his self. For instance,…

Du Bois, W.E.B. “Criteria of Negro Art.” The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, Penguin Books 1994: 100-105. Print In “Criteria of Negro Art”, Du Bois observes how art from African-American artists are pushed aside due to oppression. Du Bois states; “...the white public today demands from its artists, literary and pictorial, racial pre-judgement which deliberately distorts truth and justice...” (104) Du Bois argues that even if a piece of art or an artist is great, if they are black they are…