The Prize Winner list published in June 1925 from Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life The worth of a Black person’s life has always been in question in the United States. Post-slavery led to freed African descendants who weren’t provided with guidance or resources to adjust well into society as worthy. Are Black people… Continue reading Worthy Black Contributions (POST #3)
Blog #3 When looking through the archived Opportunity magazine, one of the things that jumped out to me was an image that we have seen in another reading that we have been looking at. At the end of Alain Locke’s essay “Enter the New Negro” in Survey Graphic, there is a drawn portrait of… Continue reading Creativity of the Harlem Renaissance
This image is displayed through many of the headers throughout the archive, it has a very authentic African feel to it. With the geometric shapes and sharp angles, I believe it represents a black man most likely. I don’t feel a deeper message behind this image beside the beauty of the art itself, some things… Continue reading Dive Into The Archive v3
As James Wheldon Johnson described it in “The Making of Harlem”, Harlem was quite possibly the greatest Negro city in the world for the era of the Harlem Renaissance. It was the ground at which African Americans saw a revival of their culture and made progress like never before. The demographical details of black neighborhoods… Continue reading Blog Post #3 Draft 2
Sometimes people confuse these concepts culture and race, the google definition of culture and race is “a class-action of people according to their beliefs and values that include spirituality, religion, region, language, and livelihoods” race is ” a classification of people according to their physical appearances, geographic ancestry, and heritable characteristics.” Many different things… Continue reading A Step In the Direction Of Dismantling Racism
Pull yourself up by your own bootstrap” intrigued me. The phrase’s commonly accepted meaning evolved, and now when we tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” it’s implying that socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to do. I thought this statement to be deceptive since the wealthy get government assistance… Continue reading The Pull yourself up Theory
While reading the Opportunity by Charles Johnson the passages that stood out to me were The Corner By Eunice Hunton Carter(pg 114) and The High Cost of Keeping the Negro Inferior By John C. Wright (pg 116) because of the element of perspective each passage held. How in Carter’s The Corner from the very beginning… Continue reading blog post 3 draft 2
The progress of African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance was changing in the “Social Progress” in the Opportunity Magazine. African Americans have been achieving and succeeding with art, music, writing, and education. Around this time African Americans have been acknowledged and received recognition to expand and increase their culture and to gain respect and to… Continue reading Blog post 3 draft pt 2
The social progress African Americans went through from being slaves to aristocrats was elaborated in “A Biographical Sketch of Archibald H. Grimke” from the Opportunity. This was a short autobiography of an African American man who was born into slavery and made it to several top tier colleges including Harvard. This man was Archibald H.… Continue reading Blog Post #3 Draft
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
