Harlem Shuffle
The novel's main character Ray Carney owns this type of business.
What is a furniture store?
This man's poetry, which includes "Let America Be America Again" is inspired by the jazz rhythms and culture that surrounded him in the 1920s in New York.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The novel most prominently features people and traditions from this indigenous nation.
What is the Lakota nation?
This game is seen as a means of earning a living in the play by both brothers.
What is three card monte?
This term refers to the practice of using details, language, and description to depict a specific setting of a story.
What is local color?
This character is a seasoned criminal and was friends with Ray's father when Ray was young.
Who is Pepper?
This poet composed and read an original poem for President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Ben asks Virgil to find this man because it is believed he is helping to sell heroine on the rez.
Who is Rick Crow?
Earlier in life, the each brother is give $500 by one of their parents, which the brothers refer to as this.
What is their inheritance?
This term refers to a main character who has many flaws, but still inspires sympathy and loyalty in readers.
What is an anti-hero?
Ray Carney is asked to apply to be a member of this club, but he is ultimately denied membership.
What is the Dumas Club?
In "Let America Be America Again," Langston Hughes touches on many themes and even evokes similar imagery to this famous speech given at the March on Washington in 1963.
What is "I Have a Dream?"
The novel's title refers to a type of this, a traditional object that Virgil used to make with his sister when they were young.
What is a calendar?
In his job as a Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Lincoln has to wear this in addition to a uniform of a tophat and coat.
What is whiteface?
This geographically-based movement in literature, art, and music celebrated Black Americans' work and creative enterprises.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Ray's limited involvement in a robbery at this hotel sets off a plot that sees him sinking deeper into the criminal underworld.
What is the Hotel Theresa?
In the poem we read by Joy Harjo, the poet uses horses to symbolize the struggles faced by this group.
Who are women?
The epilogue of the book depicts Virgil and Nathan participating in this kind of ceremony.
What is a naming ceremony?
Booth kills these characters within the timeframe of the play.
Who are Lincoln and Grace?
Harlem Shuffle adopts a dark tone and features scenes of the urban criminal underground, which are often elements associated this this type of cinema.
What is film noir?
By the end of the novel, Carney realizes that this family that Linus comes from is corrupt despite their appearances and fifth-avenue reputations.
Who are the Van Wycks?
Amanda Gorman, Langston Hughes, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. all use imagery of this to symbolize the challenges America faces.
What are hills?
Virgil's job is a form of this, or the practice of seeking justice outside of an official system.
What is vigilanteism?
This playwright wrote Topdog/Underdog.
Who is Suzan-Lori Parks?
"She Had Some Horses" is this, a type of poetry that glorifies or praises something.
What is an ode?