Where in the World
This was the location of the S Street Salon and another hub of black life and creativity outside of Harlem.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This academic and editor worked on Langston Hughes's writing and wrote the "Foreword" to Mules and Men.
Who is Rampersad?
The Harlem Renaissance ended because of the 1929 stock market crash, the Great Depression, and this 1935 event.
What is a race riot?
Where is the "hoodoo capital of America"?
What is New Orleans?
Hoodoo is a combination of things, which makes it __________________.
What is syncretic?
This is a nickname related to the imagined line between the northern and southern United States.
What is Dixie?
Jean Toomer wrote this experimental novel, which is nonlinear and set in the South.
What is Cane?
Jean Toomer, a very fair-skinned writer of the 1920s, resisted the identities of black or white and preferred to be called this instead.
What is "American"?
Like many black cultural things, one of hoodoo's foundations is ___________.
What is Christianity?
Ribbing, joning, roasting, and flaming are alternative names from this practice.
What is playing the dozens?
More African people were transported here than any other place in the world during the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade.
What is Brazil?
This renowned anthropologist and professor shifted Hurston's life and research trajectory.
Who is Franz Boaz?
Countee Cullen was briefly married to the daughter of this famous thought leader.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This was one facet of hoodoo that enslaved people used to exercise autonomy and perform acts of rebellion/resistance.
What is rootworking?
These are the honorees of many black cultural traditions, including hoodoo.
What are ancestors?
The closing of this place cemented the end of the Harlem Renaissance, among other things.
What is the Cotton Club?
Countee Cullen wrote a poem about this place where members of the Harlem literati hung out and gathered for lively parties hosted by Madame CJ Walker's daughter, A'Lelia.
What is The Dark Tower?
Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and Sammy (Sinners) were all the children of _______________.
What are preachers?
This term means to use spells and intentions to bring about outcomes, negative or positive.
What is conjure?
In Gold's origin story, "negroes" wrongly heard God say this.
What is "git black"?
Zora Neale Hurston attended this school where she met her mentor and research partner.
What is Barnard College?
Georgia Douglas Johnson refers to these two figures from a very well-known origin story in "Common Dust."
Who are Adam and Eve?
"A Black Man Talks of Reaping" and "Common Dust" are both nods to this book.
What is the Bible?
Hurston says that hoodoo is bound in this. Basically, IYKYK.
What is "secrecy"?
Hurston obscured this block of time from her life, possibly because of early traumas she experienced.
What is a decade?