The Great Migration
This Langston Hughes poem captures the urgency Black Americans felt to "pick up [their] life" and leave the American south
What is "One Way Ticket"
In this Harlem Renaissance essay, WEB DuBois claims that "All art is propaganda---and ever must be"
What is "Criteria for Negro Art"
A comparison between two unalike objects that does not use like or as
Janie's first husband
Who is Logan Kilicks
This Harlem Renaissance club featured Black performers but catered solely to white audiences. Performers included Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Ethel Waters
What is the Cotton Club
This Harlem Renaissance painter is known for his collection of over sixty paintings representing the struggles of The Great Migration
Who is Jacob Lawrence
Langston Hughes' begins his famous essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by condemning which Harlem Renaissance poet
Who is Countee Cullen
This fallacy states that it is a mistake to prioritize the author's intention over the interpretation over the artist
What is the intentional fallacy
The German word for "Coming of Age novel"
What is "Bildungsroman"
The first all-black musical of the Harlem Renaissance that Langston Hughes credits as kicking off the Renaissance.
What is Shuffle Along?
The interracial club that was most famous for dancing and jazz band contests.
In this poem, Countee Cullen compares the plight of being Black and an artist to the fates of Sisyphus and Tantalus
What is "Yet Do I Marvel"
A narrative technique in which a story is told inside of another story. This technique is used in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
What is a Frame Narrative
The narrator in Their Eyes Were Watching God is able to access the thoughts of various characters in the story through which literary technique
Hint: Blend between third and person writing
What is Third Person Free Indirect Narration
This Harlem Renaissance writer wrote the novel Passing
Who is Nella Larssen
The first African American composer to have a symphony performed by a major symphony. He was also known as the "dean of African American composers."
Who is William Grant Still
This Harlem Renaissance thinker claimed that protest art/propaganda reinforces the same oppressive systems that its designed to combat
Who is Alain Locke
The first love song performed in front of mixed audiences in a major theater.
What is "Love Will Find A Way"
Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in this year
When is 1937
Oscar Micheaux produced this film in response to the controversial movie "Birth of a Nation"
What is "Within our Gates"
This Harlem Renaissance philosopher believed that double consciousness inevitably influences conscious Black artists.
Who is W.E.B DuBois
Complete the phrase
George Schuyler believed "that the Aframerican is merely a _______________"
Lampblacked Anglo-Saxon
This Harlem Renaissance slang term referred to club patrons who enthusiastically danced the night away
What is a rug cutter
Zora Neal Hurston disappeared from Historic memory for a number of years until this writer became enamored with her work.
This writer would go on to set a grave marker at Hurston's then blank headstone
Who Is Alice Walker
This female Harlem Renaissance blues singer/pianist became infamous for wearing conventionally male clothing
Who is Gladys Bentley