Who was a teacher in New York who had James Baldwin as a student?
Countee Cullen
100
Who wrote "Cross?"
Langston Hughes
100
What was the most central idea of poetry?
Double Conscience
100
Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance was meant to______ African American people.
Inspire
100
What was the last TW about?
Independence & Conformity in schools
200
What were the names of the two magazines Gwendolyn Dennett had her poetry published in?
The Crisis & Opportunity
200
What poem did Gwendolyn Bennett write?
"Hatred"
200
What is "Twoness?"
Blacks did not feel like Americans or Africans - "divided awareness of ones identity"
200
Peots of the time used their words to lift the spirits of the _____________ African American people.
Opressed
200
When is the AP test?
May
300
Who did Arna Wendell Bontempt collaberate with on several occassions?
Langston Hughes
300
Who wrote "Enslaved?"
Claude McKay
300
True or False:
Black tradition and jazz music had an affect on poets
True
300
The Aftermath of the Harlem Renaissance poets is still felt today in some of the _________ songs of todays world.
Rap
300
How many TWs have we had this year?
12
400
What was Jessie Fauset's occupation?
An editor -or- The NAACP's magazine
400
What poem did Countee Cullen write?
"The Loss of Love"
400
Name 2 of the 3 aspects of double conscienceness.
1. negative images/stereotypes
2. creating a way of life the was "American" and "not-American"
3. internal conflicts
400
In the early_______ rap first started out as poetry set to an interesting beat.
1990's
400
What book are we reading?
The Catcher In The Rye
500
Where did Claude McKay migrate from?
Jamaica
500
What poem was about not knowing what color you are?
"Cross"
500
Who said, "One ever feels his two-ness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled stirrings: two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder?"
Du Bois
500
Tupac Shakur wrote a poem called_______ to emphasize the strength of African Americans.
Can you see the Pride in the Panther
500
True or False:
The Scarlet Letter was the first book we read.