Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem Renaissance: |
A Culture of Change: The Jazz Age |
Segregation: |
Separate but Equal: The Law of the Land |
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia |
Roaring Twenties: |
To Live In The 1920's |
Fashions Of The 1920's |
Fashion |
History Brief: 1920s Flappers |
Flappers 1920 Documentary |
Prohibition |
The History of Prohibition in the United States |
Prohibition and Crime |
Speakeasies |
Speakeasies of the Prohibition Era |
Flappers |
Flappers in the Roaring Twenties |
46d. Flappers |
Flappers - The Roaring Twenties |
The Fabulous Flappers |
Famous Flappers (1/3) |
History: Flappers |
Josephine Baker |
Josephine Baker - 2 - (1927) |
Josephine Baker |
Josephine Baker's Banana Dance |
Jazz/Blues |
America's Music History: The Jazz Age |
All About Jazz: A Brief History of the Blues |
New Woman |
African American New Woman |
New Negro NAACP |
The New Negro Movement |
Poetry |
McKay, Claude: Biography |
Hughes, Langston: Biography |
Cullen, Countee: Biography |
Bennett, Gwendolyn: Biography |
Fauset, Jessie Redmon: Biography |
Johnson, James Weldon: Biography |
Red Summer 1919 |
Short Stories |
Section 1: Reading Assignment |
McKeever, Benjamin F. “Cane as Blues.” Negro American Literature Forum (4:2), 1970 July, 61–63. |
Cancel, Rafael A. “Male and Female Interrelationship in Toomer's Cane.” Negro American Literature Forum, (5:1), 1971 Spring, 25–31. |
Section 2: Reading Assignment |
Walker, Daniel F. “Exploding the Canon: A Re-examination of Wallace Thurman’s Assault on the Harlem Renaissance.” Western Journal of Black Studies; Fall 1998; 22, 3; pg. 153. |
Thurman, Wallace: Biography |
Walker, Daniel F.: Biography The above reading is currently unavailable. Please contact your course coordinator on how to further proceed. |
Section III: Reading Assignment |
Fauset, Jessie Redmon: Biography |
Johnson, Abby Arthur. “Literary Midwife: Jessie Redmon Fauset and the Harlem Renaissance.” Phylon: The Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture (Atlanta, GA), (39:2), 1978, 143–53. |
Edward Christopher Williams: When Washington Was in Vogue |
Nella Larsen: Quicksand |
Bonner, Marita O. “On Being Young—A Woman—and Colored.” Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology. Rutgers University Press, 2001. |
James Weldon Johnson. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man |
Johnson, James Weldon: Biography |