Causes of the Harlem Ren.
Define: "Renaissance"
"Rebirth"
This author was best known for her books that portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South, like "Their Eyes Were Watching God", but also published research on hoodoo.
Zora Neale Hurston
The New Negro campaign caused a dilemma for visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance: Would their work express the artist heritage of Western art or that of _________?
Africa
This genre of music sang a song about all the hardships and discrimination that blacks had to deal with during the 1920's through the 1930's.
This author wrote the poems "Mother to Son", "Harlem", and "Dreams".
Langston Hughes
Why is this movement called the "Harlem Renaissance"?
It was a period of rebirth of art and culture for Black Americans that centered in Harlem, NY.
W.E.B. coined this term to describe the one in ten Black men that have cultivated the ability to become leaders of the Black community by acquiring a college education, writing books, and becoming directly involved in social change.
The Talented Tenth
This Harlem renaissance artist was well known for his positive, everyday social scenes of African American life.
Archibald Motley
What two musical genres were popular during the Harlem Renaissance?
Bonus + 100 points for a description of each
Jazz - fast paced and energetic, encourages dancing and movement &
Blues - had steady, melodic instrumentals accompanied by lyrics that held intense personal and emotional elements
This is what every simile in "Harlem" compares (two things)
A dream deferred and what happens to it
What is the "Great Migration"?
(What was it? Who was involved? When did it happen?)
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West starting in the early 1900s (1910-30s).
Using two quotes from the poem "Booker T. and W.E.B.", compare the differing values of the two men.
Answers will vary but should include a statement on how their opinions differ (WEB argued that Black Americans needed to agitate and protest to become free and equal, while Booker T. wanted to accommodate white racism and gain equality through "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps" / working hard) + evidence from the poem.
Many artists in the Harlem-Renaissance including Augusta Savage and Countee Cullen, were not able to survive off of their artwork alone and did this to make ends meet.
Teach!
This genre of music originated in New Orleans, LA. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are two of the most well-known artist of this genre of the time.
Jazz
Describe one of the several similes used in the poem "Harlem". Repeat the simile, then explain what it means.
Answers will vary.
EX: the simile, "Maybe it just sags / like a heavy load" (Lines 9-10) = A postponed dream can become something difficult to carry
Describe at least three causes of the "Great Migration"
Some creators of the Harlem Ren., including Countee Cullen who was heavily influenced by Romanticism and preferred classical verse forms rather than rely on the rhythms and idioms of his African heritage, were criticized and called THIS name because they were influenced by the traditional styles favored by the dominant white culture.
Traditionalists
Explain the following quote "Visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance…attempted to win control over representation of their people from white caricature and denigration while developing a new repertoire of images."
Painters, sculptors, etc. during the Harlem Ren. wanted to create new art to more positively represent Black Americans in the 1930s, rather than the historically racist white caricatures such as "Jim Crow".
Describe one of the musical artists from the jigsaw activity (Genre of music, instrument of choice, best known fors?)
Answers will vary
This is why the title "Harlem" is significant to the meaning of the poem.
Harlem NY was the center of the Harlem Renaissance, and therefore a place where dreams could be made and artists and thinkers could prosper instead of "deferring" them.