After the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War from 1865 well into the early twentieth century, black people (often met with barriers, especially in the southern states) finally got access to education, land ownership, and money. Black people began to spread all over the country. Many black people migrated to the north in hopes of… Continue reading Black Identity Overview
My final project will focus on the different events black people went through in the 1900’s. Black culture has been under the microscope for quite a while. People make movies and write books about the different events that happened to black people and I look at that as shedding light on black culture. African Americans… Continue reading Shedding Light on Black Culture
Harlem Renaissance Overview In the context of the postwar and reconstruction period of the United States, the Harlem Renaissance stands out as the dominant cultural revolution for Black Americans of the time and helped to establish Black intellectualism as a force worthy of recognition by the broader US public. Writers like W.E.B. Du Bois and… Continue reading Final Overview Draft
My final project is going to based off The New Negro movement the term that was coined by the Harlem Renaissance writer Alain Locke. In my Blog post I have always used the hashtag “The American Timeline” for me this means the timeline that the history books do not show the Harlem renaissance is an… Continue reading Final Proposal
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance documents the essence and emergence of a new post-reconstructionist Black culture. Blackness, which has never before been given the platform to develop and evolve in Western society, is now burdened with the responsibility of creating its own identity, values, aspirations, and limits. During this early 1920’s time frame it is… Continue reading Cultural Infancy ( Final Project Draft)
In the early 1900s, Black Americans searched for a new identity during the Great Migration. This period of time marked African Americans moving from the south to Harlem, New York City. Harlem was originally designed to be an upper-class white neighborhood 20 years prior to the Great Migration, which led to certain white residents fighting… Continue reading Black Excellence Thrives On – 500 word Draft
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
Throughout the course Ive learned alot of knowledge of Harlem Renaissance especially the upbringing of the Social progress and succeeding accomplishments of African Americans. African Americans had faced and overcome racial injustice. Over time, African Americans have overcome this in order to obtain a better education, a better career, a better future, and better prospects.… Continue reading Final Draft
The Harlem Renaissance is a unique period from 1910s through the 1930s,The Harlem Renaissance was about art and the “new nergo” Throughout the course, I’ve noticed that Harlem Renaissance writers focused on the major topic of The contributions of black peopel in the fields of art, music, writing, and education, along with black refinement and… Continue reading draft for final
My project will be about on idealism during the turn of the 20th century, with a focus on the negro community. I will attempt to explain and show how the ideals of each person shaped what they did, and how it reflected upon them in their writings. Ideals and idealism are important to be shown… Continue reading Final project proposal
