Spanish Harlem

This article discussed the early accomplishments, documentaries, and controversies surrounding the life of Henry Louis Gates Jr. Born on September 16, 1950, in Keyser, West Virginia, Gates continued to travel and study internationally before he became in charge of Harvard’s African-American studies department. Additionally, Gates was an exceptional student who continued to excel academically, he graduated with a degree in history from Yale University in the year 1973. He continued to pursue high…

The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic, intellectual and literary movement that helped shape African American culture. It gave African Americans a voice to express themselves through a variety of means. Authors like Langston Hughes and W.E.B Dubois, musicians like Billie Holiday, and artists like Lois Mailou Jones and Aaron Douglas, were some of the most influential people during this movement. Before the new movement black artists rarely concerned themselves subject matters that included their…

were created, such as prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance.…

Sing it, Dance it, Write it, Paint it Just like many of the great visionaries of the Harlem Renaissance, Aaron Douglas, one of the leading visual artists of the era, was not born and raised in Harlem. This artistic genius came out of Topeka, Kansas, where he developed an artistic sense of community and isolation. Before Douglas became a “pioneering Africanist” of the Harlem Renaissance, he received his bachelors degree of fine arts at the University of Nebraska, and taught in Missouri…

he Harlem renaissance was a conglomeration of the best and brightest, poets, singers, artist, philosophers and all around thinkers of the African American community. They were escaping the oppression of the American South for a place where they could gather and let their creativity free. Some of the major names that were a part of the Renaissance included Langston Hughes (poet), Claude McKay (writer/poet), Zora Neale Hurston (novelist) and many more. The Harlem Renaissance wasn't just a…

Jacob Lawrence “The Migration of the Negro” A. After viewing this painting by Jacob Lawrence, there were various observation I made about the form of this painting. First off, the painting utilizes various diagonal lines on the back of the subjects, which gives the painting the sense of movement that the artist intended to depict. In addition, the painting features mainly geometric forms such as triangles, circles and rectangles; rather than depicting the figures with organic shapes. In terms…

The Power of Words African American writers such as Langston Hughes bring a voice to the segregation and racial issues African Americans and other minority groups endured. Hughes works provide a clear, visual picture of the racism, and discrimination towards African Americans. Hughes does not “sugar coat” the effects that racism and segregation had towards African American and their cultures and traditions. In Langston Hughes’ poem, “I, Too” the speaker speaks about eating and singing but…

He was so intrigued by the art scene there that he defined the spirit of age from a literary point of view. The Big Sea was the first volume of his autobiography and it provides his point of view about the Harlem Renaissance. He met other writers during this time period such as: Countee Cullen, Claude McCay, W.E.B. DuBois, and James Weldon Johnson (Langston Hughes Biography). [When] his poem “The Weary Blues” won first prize in the 1925 Opportunity magazine…

Maya Angelou and Alice Walker are both well-known African American authors. They both were awarded for having some of the best non-fictional and fictional texts on what it is like to be black in the United States. Both Angelou and Walker were inspirational civil rights activists but what made them different was their styles in writing, ways of expressing topics or situations, and each very unique. Maya Angelou was a strong writer, actor, and a great poet. In fact she was the writer, director,…

that nobody will dare the him to eat in the kitchen, but rather see how beautiful said character is and they’ll be ashamed of how they treated him. Incident is a poem by Countee Cullen. Countee Cullen is one of the great voices that represented the Harlem Renaissance. Incident tells a short story of how a nice smile that was given with joy was returned with a rude face and cruelty. Cullen writes about a character of color riding around Baltimore enjoying the sites, when the character notices a…