Passing--this exam!
She can't stop staring, and it's making her old friend very uncomfortable.
Who is Clare?
He saved a huge collection of party invitations from 1927-1960.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Conservative writer, editor, and critic George Schuyler titled his essay this to denote that he perceived separatism to be a joke.
What is "The Negro-Art Hokum"?
Zora Neale Hurston set all of her stories in this place, largely because it was where she grew up.
What is Eatonville?
"The Black Finger" could be just that--or it could be this...
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Mrs. Redfield suspects that something deceptive is happening, and "it" hurts.
What is an affair?
He was young, excitable, and talented when he arrived in Harlem from Utah. He drank about as much as he wrote and worried about being dark-skinned.
Who is Wallace Thurman?
This instrument is made to be strummed or plucked, and Hurston called it something other than what we might know it as.
What is a guitar?
Hurston is known for using this in her writing.
What is "southern dialect?"
She must have thought she was in a Victorian novel rather than a Harlem Renaissance one because looking at a free black woman made her so uncomfy she nearly fainted!
Who is Emma Lou Morgan?
A multiracial woman protagonist whose only way out is by death or some other devastating outcome makes up this often repeated trope.
What is Tragic Mulatta?
She published two bangers back to back in 1928 and 1929 and then ghosted. Accusations of plagiarism in 1930 and a rumor about an affair sent her into the shadows.
Who is Nella Larsen?
This aptly named assistant gave families in the South the go-ahead or go-around for certain towns.
What is the Greenbook?
Tea Cake learns the hard way that what you put out comes back to you when this happens.
What is Janie shoots him?
This complex network of transit workers are largely responsible for the mass exodus of southerners who successfully made it North during The Great Migration.
What are Pullman Porters?
In the film, Mr. Redfield wants the boys to know. In the novel, he just wants to go! Where to though?
What is Brazil?
This guy preferred to sell his property rather than lower the rent for his rowdy, party-throwing tenant.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This unique name describes the group of writers who came out of the 20th century.
What is the "literati?"
The characters in Their Eyes Were Watching God use this colloquial phrase to refer to the fields where they work.
What is "de muck?"
She was a spy for the French during WWII aside from being a renowned entertainer.
Actress Ruth Negga stars in the film adaptation of Passing, but she also stars in this 2016 film about this 1967 Supreme Court decision that overturned miscegenation laws.
What is Loving vs. Virginia?
Patron, photographer, writer, and socialite--he was the reason the author of Passing became well-known.
Who is Carl Van Vechten?
The speaker in "I, Too" is this kind of brother.
What is "darker"?
Hurston and Hughes often wrote of the folk, otherwise known as this.
What is working-class?
A piece of his art will run you up to twenty bands.
Who is Aaron Douglas?