Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism
What is a political movement of Europeanized West Indians, Africanism and African Americans in reaction to the radical hypocrisy of the western powers
After this main event, the Black Francophones started advocating for colonial independence
What is WWII?
Harlem Renaissance
What is the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted?
Was jazz liked by all of France? Why/why not?
No, some groups considered it to be like alcohol or opium, it doesn't cure anything, it's just a distraction. Another group suggested it threatened western ideals.
Francophone
What is a fluent French speaker?
Main founder of NAAPC
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
"New Negro" intellectuals sought to achieve racial equality by promoting black cultural achievements and Pan-African political activity in which 2 major cities?
Paris and New York
"New Negro"
What is burying old stereotypes of illiteracy and inferiority and claiming a new race-proud and independent identity?
Woman credited with popularizing Beguine and other antillian dance steps. Also a prominent civil rights activist.
Who was Josephine Baker?
Harlem Renaissance time period
What is from the 1910s through the mid-1930s?
T/F: Did France officially discourage racial discrimination? and why?
True, a significant portion of the public believed that people of any race can acquire the fine human traits embedded in French culture.
Was the strategy of achieving racial acceptance through the arts proven sufficient or insufficient?
Insufficient, by 1935 the Harlem Renaissance had started to fade.
One of the main causes of African Americans staying in France after the war
What is treatment of black people in the military?
Who was Roland Hayes?
Gave a benefit concert for a civil rights organization
Creator of the term "New Negro"
Who is Alain Locke?
The main topic of discussion at the 1st Pan-Africanism Conference
What is the demanding of participation of Africans in colonial governments?
What was one of the main causes of the revolution that we have talked about?
What is WWII and the Francophone black intellectual and African American cultures colliding?
Who wrote "What the black American has and the black Frenchman has not is the constant reminder that he is inferior?"
Who is M. Cornick?
Who was Langston Hughes?
Submitted poetry to a column called "Les Continents." Brought to light struggles for equality as well as general activities African Americans were partaking in in France.
Who was Alain Locke's colleague that helped him introduce Harlem Renaissance’s New Negro and France’s black intelligentsia to each other and others?
Who is Mercer Cook?
DuBois' stance vs Black Francophone's stance on African American participation in government
What is self governance? (DuBois)
What is status quo? (Black Francophone)
The old west Indian elite gradually was supplanted by younger blacks who were animated by which 2 sociological theories?
What is Nationalism and Marxism?
Two men that were leaders of post-World War I Pan-Africanism, important points of contact between the African Americans and francophone blacks, and informed the Europeans about the race problems in America
Who are Rayford Logan & William Stuart Nelson?
Where did the African American communities meet with France's primarily West Indian population (French Blacks)?
What is Balcolonial in Montparnasse?
What was the lasting effect of the Harlem Renaissance?
Gave Black people a voice and spread their culture to communities where the presence of Black people and their culture weren't accepted and inspired advocacy for independence