Spanish Harlem

“The most important problem in America is drug abuse.”- Richard Nixon The House I Live In is an eye-opening documentary that informs people of what the war on drugs truly is. The black community has been the initial target of the war on drugs (drugs and drug abuse). This is something that is very hard for me to understand because the white community are the ones who brought the drugs over in the first place, and minorities are made to suffer. Also, higher powers put so much focus on people, that…

transformations. In the great place of Harlem, New York, it went through the most transformation. Harlem went from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negros. Throughout the article “Harlem: The Culture Capital,” James Weldon discussed the transformation of Harlem, New York, the transformation of culture, African Americans in New York, the struggle for blacks in Harlem, and the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout the 1880’s and the 1890’s, Harlem went through an extravagant transformation. Harlem went…

The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance also known as the Black Literary Renaissance and the “New Negro” Movement, was a movement that took place in New York between the years of 1917 to 1935. This movement was marked by the “Great Migration”, where blacks that were settled in the South migrated to the North in search for bigger opportunities and civil rights. During these years Jim Crow laws and slavery were being practiced in the south, which were some of the main factors that caused…

Legend The legacy Countee Cullen, constructed has made one of the biggest impacts on the era of the Harlem Renaissance. The message Cullen was capable of imposing through poetry to all races makes you believe he was destined to be the best. The struggles the African American, race was experiencing is exposed through Countee Cullen’s, work. He brought new respect and awareness to the black race; through poems like “Heritage”, “Fruit of The Flower,” and “Incident”. His life experiences were…

is my favorite poet of all time) shined a luminous spotlight on the African American community through his writing in a way that no other writer during his time was able to match. Amongst other emerging black writers, Hughes led the parade of the Harlem Renaissance where a faucet of culture trickled in self expression through music, art, and literature. Writers like himself expressed raw emotion through their written works. Hughes served as the voice of thousands of African Americans living…

Living through the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes was able to experience many changes in America. His poetry helped to bring to light dreams and aspirations for a better time and a better self. In doing so, he follows the theme of personhood describing the dreams and aspirations…

This novel shows a progression in the ideals of Scott heron. A budding student of the Harlem renaissance, the nigger factory is Scott heron’s examination of the extremes that a group of people will go through to gain basic rights. While this novel was well received, it serves as context of subject matter for Scott Herons later works. The…

From an artistic standpoint, the stories of Daisy Turner although historical are harrowing accounts of experiences. Progressing onto the Harlem Renaissance, the contribution of women authors began to change the landscape of literature in general markedly. However, the impact on African American literature was immense as the Harlem Renaissance became its own specific subset of American literature and changed the style, content, and context of what exist in a number of genres. Fast forward…

Langston Hughes was a private, mysterious poet, whose sexuality became the focus of curiosity by his critics and readers before and after his 1967 passing. While there was limited scholarly works that accurately biographed his life, there was indeed a plethora of critical reviews and analyzations of his writing itself by various writers and poets (Summers 3). His work was different in that it mostly remained gender ambiguous and defied stereotypes about what it meant to be a man, a woman,…

celebrated painting. Motley was an African American artist that wanted to express his pride in the African American race. He believed that, “It is a culture that is exciting, dynamic, and purely their own” (Harlem). He expressed their culture by creating the piece, Nightlife, right after the Harlem Renaissance. To start, the vivid colors are what draws people’s attention at first. The paintings colors give off an energetic and joyful feel. The rich colors the artist uses helps set up the mood…