My focus for my blog site will be black resilience and representation of the community. African Americans were denied input in the economic, social, and political progress of the United States because for over 300 years they were enslaved and seen as property. Throughout the Harlem Renaissance era, there are numerous examples of individuals using… Continue reading Project Proposal: Resilience and Representation
Firstly, I am so grateful to have the opportunity to attend this trip. This tour and the tour guide answered all my childhood questions about the place I grew up in, Harlem. I went to St. Aloysius for elementary school and middle school on 132nd ST, my grandfather is super for a building on St.… Continue reading Walking in their Footsteps: Harlem Walking Tour
Within the Black community, there are interconnected social struggles or forms of discrimination known as intersectionality. Although this is a new term, intersectionality has been an issue in the Black community since the Harlem Renaissance. According to Kimberle Crenshaw, creator of the term, intersectionality acknowledges the unique experiences of discrimination and privilege people go through.… Continue reading Intersectionality in Harlem
After reading Kim Gallon’s “Make a Case for the Black Humanities”, a particular quote stuck out to me. Gallon explains, “Recovery rests at the heart of Black studies, as a scholarly tradition that seeks to restore the humanity of black people lost and stolen through systemic global racialization.” In other words, Gallon is explaining how… Continue reading Hot Take: Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities
My hot take is focused on one word, furtive. According to the Merriam Webster, furtive means “attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.” In the first page of the novel the author describes Irene Redfield as furtive and after researching the meaning… Continue reading Passing : the Novel (Hot Take)
I have to start my hot take by saying Tessa Thompson (Irene) and Ruth Negga (Clare) were simply amazing, and I believe they both beautifully embodied their characters in the film. This film is about two mixed-race childhood friend who reunites while ironically, passing for white to shop in a whites-only store. They both used… Continue reading Passing (Hot Take)
If you’re an American, the phrase “land of opportunity” is very familiar, and depending on how patriotic you are it may be a phrase that’s close to your heart. First used during the western expansion, the Homestead Act offered people of all races the opportunity to move west and claim government land for cheap to… Continue reading Harlem: The Land of Opportunity
The Cleveland Gazette, an African-American weekly newspaper, once wrote “A class of colored people, the “New Negro”… have arisen since the War, with education, refinement, and money.” In other words, after the Civil War and the nine years of reconstruction, African-Americans immediately began the game of ketchup and began to establish themselves as American citizens.… Continue reading Blog Post #1 The “New” Negro
Eunice Roberta Hunton once wrote, “Harlem is a modern ghetto”. Harlem of 1925 was not exactly the concentration camps of Warsaw, Poland where members of the Jewish community were kept forcibly segregated from others. The Nazis used their racist and prejudiced narratives to uproot, disrupt and stop the productivity of a whole community of people and created… Continue reading Conscious Pathbreakers: Escaping the “Ghetto”