• Focus: is on portrayal of African American women during the Harlem Renaissance/how women contributed to it. Key themes: Black Feminisim, Sexualization, Women Empowerment, New Negro Movement. (relate to Crisis Queen, use Countee Cullen poems, Cordelia the Crude, Passing? etc.)
• I want to illustrate the portrayal of African American women during the Harlem Renaissance from how they’re viewed (sexualization from a young age, Coredlia the Crude), how they’re told to act (De Bois proper mentality/ what Crisis Magazine Covers tried to prove), how it’s okay to be who you are (this can be in relation to New Negro Movement/self-expression/black feminism) and how women contributed to the Harlem Renaissance 
• It’s important to me because women already don’t get the proper recognition or representation. African American women more specifically have more often than not been portrayed and treated in unjust ways. I want to be able to bring the voice to women and explain that they are valuable, that they are heard, and they can be free to do whatever they want. (Don’t listen to white man’s or any man’s opinion and let women be the one’s to share about themselves)
• Blog Post 1 “Crisis Queen” Blog Post 2 “Rainbow Fantasy” *title will change* Blog Post 3 “Inspire the Youth” 

-I’m hoping blog post 1 shows how during the Harlem Renaissance Africans Americans began to use their own voice/publications like ‘Crisis’ to depict themselves in a proper and humanistic way. Yes those covers are meant to counter-injustices but it also highlights pride and excellence. 

-I’m hoping Blog Post 2 counters the norms and any stereotypical portrayals of African American women while encouraging love and freedom. 

-I’m hoping Blog Post 3 evokes the need for being active and speaking out against injustices. It ties a long with the New Negro Movement and wanting to get the youth to spark change.

 

Bibliography 

(primary sources)

Crisis Magazine 

Survey Graphic 

Opportunity 

(secondary sources)

Hebble, Susan Morrison. “Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 218, Gale, 2009. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420090822/LitRC?u=cuny_baruch&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=65f5b8ed. Accessed 5 May 2022. Originally published in The History of Southern Women’s Literature, edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks, Louisiana State University Press, 2002, pp. 296-308.

Jones, Sharon L. “Reclaiming a legacy: the dialectic of race, class, and gender in Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West.” Hecate, vol. 24, no. 1, May 1998, pp. 155+. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A21059508/LitRC?u=cuny_baruch&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=187d94bd. Accessed 5 May 2022. 

McKay, Nellie. “What Were They Saying?: Black Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance.” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 179, Gale, 2006. Gale Literature Criticism, link-gale-com.remote.baruch.cuny.edu/apps/doc/DBLSHR943275822/LCO?u=cuny_baruch&sid=bookmark-LCO&xid=621943a2. Accessed 5 May 2022. Originally published in The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined, edited by Victor A. Kramer, AMS Press, 1987, pp. 129-147.