My focus theme will be on Black excellence and worthy Black contributions to society. I am aiming to explain and demonstrate Black excellence and Black contributions to society how directly relates to Black humanity. The significance of my chosen theme is to emphasis the role lost Black Literature plays a role in recovering Black humanity.… Continue reading Bre’s Final Blog Site Proposal
Title: Queer Reality and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance My final project will center around expressions of sexuality, specifically queer sexuality in the period of the Harlem Renaissance. I will show how writers and thinkers of the Harlem renaissance were able to express their thoughts and feelings about sexuality, both straight and queer, at a… Continue reading Christopher Edwards Final Blog Site Proposal
Harlem Semester Project Proposal At the start of this semester, I was thinking that I wanted to focus on artwork in this class, specifically the paintings of Jacob Lawrence. Going into this class I knew that the Harlem Renaissance was a literary movement, but I also had a vague idea that there was an… Continue reading Final Blog Site Proposal
This trip was definitely more interesting than anticipated. Given that I was born and raised in Harlem, I have walked down these streets before, but I never much stopped to think about the history of every street. I guess when something’s ordinary you just don’t really pay a lot of attention to it. But when… Continue reading Walking Tour of Harlem Blog Post – DS
Throughout these readings, the gaze and one’s perception and awareness of other individuals is a prominent theme. In the story of “Cordelia the Crude”, Cordelia is a young and promiscuous girl with the potential of being a prostitute and no more than that. She doesn’t work or go to school, and she spends her nights… Continue reading Blog Post #5 Final Draft
Passing , Nella Larsen Reading the book Passing really put things in perspective for me a lot of passages in the book really stuck out among reading the novel. Although The film adaptation of the novel is fairly it does not grasp the different themes of the novel to justice. In the novel we… Continue reading “Instinct of the race to survive and expand.” Inside the mind of The New Negro
Looking through these texts such as “Passing” in 1929 written by Nella Larson, gazing or looking at “the other” is central. Although when it comes to gazing it is shown in a different variety of ways. Two of the ways I would like to speak on and emphasize on are colorism and passing and how… Continue reading Gazing on Colorism and Passing
For the first article, Making a case for black digital humanities, the author claims “Black people’s subsistence and resistance to the complex oppressive systems of slavery, colonialism, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and police brutality, across time and space makes black lives ground zero for a technology of recovery using social media…” (p.44). More than 150… Continue reading 4/26 Hot Take on Black Digital Humanities Articles
Thus, this piece names the “black digital humanities” as the intersection between Black studies and digital humanities, transforming the concept into corporeal reality while lending language to the work of the black digerati in and outside of the academy” ( Kim Gallon 43). This statement reminds me of intersectionality and how important this word is… Continue reading Digital Humanities Hot-take
There is a quote on page 90 of the novel passing that gives me a different impression of Clare Kendry’s sense of self and her passing as a white woman: “No, Clare Kendry cared nothing for the race. She only belonged to it.” To me, this implies that Clare was indifferent to her blackness. Like,… Continue reading Clare Kendry in Passing (Novel)