Throughout the course, I’ve noticed that writers of the Harlem Renaissance embrace the idea of queerness––as both a sexual identity and a reoccurring motif of strangeness. I want to focus on the Harlem Renaissance as a queer-coded moment in literature; I intend to explore how the applied queerness to these texts, in all of its… Continue reading Blog Post Proposal
https://youtu.be/Esp4emKds5w My commentary is at the end of the video.
https://youtu.be/iRviqeDtVjM Here is the Hurston summary video for my group consisting of Christopher, G’Nelle, and myself. 🙂
A large part of what makes Opportunity a magazine that is seemingly the pulse of Harlem at the Harem Renaissance is this emphasis on its intentions. How Opportunity differs itself from other periodicals like the Crisis, is its explicit intentions of affirming the newfound Black identity; the demand for social change is not only evident but… Continue reading (Draft) Crisis vs. Opportunity: Harlem Ren. Attitudes in Periodical Print
The lens from which we observe Crisis Magazine (founded by W.E.B Du Bois in 1910) should heavily consider audience. Because The Crisis is meant for both white and Black audiences, we should be thinking about what vision DuBois is laying out for white and Black people to see. When I scroll through, I see a… Continue reading Post #1 Crisis: Claiming Personhood