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2312 Harlem Renaissance, Major Ideas, and Modernity
- 2. The Interwar Period • Today we will look at: • The Harlem Renaissance • Videos • Readings • Art • Major Figures: Freud and Einstein • A discussion of Modernism • Hear about the Reactionary 20s chapter from the author. • Next time we will: • Examine the Great Depression • Talk about the New Deal
- 3. The Harlem Renaissance • Intro Video • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkTVYtjKiF8 • Langston Hughes • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0URpI9nKQ
- 4. The Harlem Renaissance – Examples of Poetry The Heart of a Woman - GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn, As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on, Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home. The heart of a woman falls back with the night, And enters some alien cage in its plight, And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars. -1918 The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (The Cornhill Company, 1918)
- 5. The Harlem Renaissance – Examples of Poetry Common Dust - GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON And who shall separate the dust What later we shall be: Whose keen discerning eye will scan And solve the mystery? The high, the low, the rich, the poor, The black, the white, the red, And all the chromatique between, Of whom shall it be said: Here lies the dust of Africa; Here are the sons of Rome; Here lies the one unlabelled, The world at large his home! Can one then separate the dust? Will mankind lie apart, When life has settled back again The same as from the start? (Between 1920-1924)
- 6. The Harlem Renaissance – Examples of Poetry America -CLAUDE MCKAY Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth. Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate, Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the days ahead, And see her might and granite wonders there, Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand, Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand. -1921 Liberator (The Library of America, 1921)
- 7. The Harlem Renaissance – Examples of Poetry No Images -WILLIAM WARING CUNEY She does not know her beauty, she thinks her brown body has no glory. If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the river, she would know. But there are no palm trees on the street, and dish water gives back no images. -1926
- 8. The Harlem Renaissance – Examples of Art The Crucifixtion(1927) Charleston(1928) – Aaron Douglas
- 9. For Reference: Thomas Hart Benton • New York, Early Twenties (Madison Square Park, 1920-24) • From Missouri • American Modernism, Regionalism • Later mentored Jackson Pollock
- 10. The Harlem Renaissance – Examples of Photography James Van Der Zee Couple in Raccoon Coats (1932) Eve’s Daughter (1920)
- 11. The Harlem Renaissance – Examples of Photography James Van Der Zee Queue in Harlem (1927) Strolling (1925)
- 12. Major Ideas • Sigmund Freud • Psychoanalysis • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQaqXK7z9LM • Albert Einstein • Relativity • Explaining the world through science • Would later come to the US • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyjQJBDD5V4
- 13. Modernism and Modernity • What were the promises of modernity before WWI? • How did World War I change how people felt about modernity? • How do you think the ideas of Modernism changed after the war?
- 14. Chapter 24: In the words of the author • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFe6amZhFoA • Now, every time you do the readings you will hear THIS voice in your head…
- 15. Final Thoughts • Take out a sheet of paper. • What do you think caused the Great Depression? • For next time: • Chapter 25 • We will start the Great Depression and the New Deal • See you Wednesday!
Editor's Notes
- Born in Atlanta. Worked as a teacher and principle until 1902, then studied music (Violin) Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. Married a prominent Republican lawyer, who was appointed to a position in Washington, DC by Pres. Taft. He did not support her writing or music, and wished her to be a homemaker (this poem is dedicated to him). After his death, she worked clerical jobs to support herself, became more famous for writing (poems and plays), and began having a weekly Salon in her house where many of the prominent figures in the Harlem Renaissance would come. These continued for 40 years. From 1926-1932 she had a weekly column that appeared in at least 20 newspapers nationwide.
- Born in Jamaica, came to the US in 1912 to study at the Tuskegee Institute. Disliked the intense racism in the South and the militaristic form of education at Tuskegee, so he transferred to Kansas State University. While there he was exposed to a number of prominent African-American writers, decided he did not want to study agriculture, and moved to NYC. He was a radical socialist and atheist for most of his life. He travelled extensively, including to the newly formed Soviet Union, where he spoke and wrote about life for African-Americans in the US to communist audiences. Wrote poetry, books, and served as an editor for publications during the Ren. Even published a book in the Soviet Union, in Russian which was not translated until long after his death.
- Born in DC, graduated from Lincoln Univ in Pennsylvania where he was a classmate of Langston Hughes. Also studied music in Boston and Rome (he sang, but never became a professional singer). Because of his love of music his poems are often characterized by a musical rhythm, and many of them have been set to music an sung – most famously by Nina Simone.
- Aaron Douglas was from Topeka, KS. He later graduated from U of Nebraska and became a HS art teacher in KCMO. It was his dream to quit teaching and move to Paris (as many aspiring artists did). He stopped on his way to Paris in Harlem, and was convinced to stay. He is best known for illustrating many publications from the Harlem Ren. and for his style, which both exemplifies modernist style, and African-American themes. He has painted many murals around the country, and later became the Chair of the Art department at Fisk University in Nashville, TN. (and yes, he did achieve his dream, and in the early 30s he did live in Paris for a year)
- Born in Lenox, Mass. Moved to Harlem as a young man. Began taking photos as a teen, and developing them in an improvised darkroom. Later opened a portrait studio on West 125th in Harlem. His work is best known for chronicling and highlighting African-American life in NY (and later the US) in the 1920s and 1930s. He was important enough at the time that he was commissioned to document the UNIA by Marcus Garvey. His prominence was largely forgotten until the late 1960s, when his work was “rediscovered” by another photographer creating an art exhibit on Harlem in this period. The photographer had walked into his studio and asked if he still had any pictures from then, only to be shocked when he produced boxes and boxes of negatives. He was then made the centerpiece of the show. He continued to work as a photographer until his death in 1983.