Prompt:
What can the covers of the Crisis communicate about the Black experience in America? Who are these covers for? What do they suggest about the characteristics or implications of “the New Negro” as a trope or this new form of black representation in the US? Answer one or more of these questions drawing upon at least one cover of Crisis and our first set of readings (Gates, Locke, Harris). This post is assessed in terms of how well it presents information, a thoughtful point of interpretation or explanation ( that responds to the aforementioned questions), use of titles, categories, tags, mechanics (grammar), and citation.
Include Category: Blog Post #1; Crisis Magazine
Suggested Tag: New Negro; other tags (generated by students) recommended
This first Blog post is an effort-based grade but will receive full feedback.
Goals for Blog Post:
Content
- Poses and answers a question or offer an interpretive or analytical claim ( focus on “the New Negro”) OR prompt of your own design
- avoid the obvious (in other words, it won’t argue a conclusion that most readers could reach on their own from general knowledge )
- support its main points with strong evidence from the material
- use careful reasoning to explain how that evidence relates to the main points of the interpretative claim.
- Contextualize textual material or archival material
Design
- Include 1 form of media
- Categories (e.g. Blog # 1, and other related categories)
- Few Grammatical Error
(Late submission automatic 5pt deduction; after 5 days a letter grade, after 5 days unless you talk with the instructor ahead of time get an extension, you will receive a zero)
The Crisis was a unique publication for its time. This magazine showed the insight into the experiences and lives of a group of people who for most of American history were held down by a racial caste system. In America, people of African decent were outcasted by the society, seen as people who couldn’t become like the well-off. They worked menial jobs as housekeepers and janitors and weren’t expected to amount to a more affluent lifestyle. The Crisis shuts down these types of stereotypes by showing there could be a bright side to the black experience in America through their covers. The covers of this magazine have depicted the black experience in America as not how it was stereotypically expected to be but with an implication that there will be a new life for Black Americans in America. The covers were the face of this new Black America. These covers did marvels by defeating stereotypes of lower-class African Americans. People didn’t expect to see African Americans in graduation caps and being proud of and having their own culture. These covers were for two groups of people. The first group is the African Americans, so they could see themselves as more than what they were expected to be. An African American working a menial job, making not very much money, and not knowing much of their own history beyond slavery could see themselves as more than an underclassman and could see themselves prospering and living better lives. The second group of people that the Crisis magazine covers are for are the typical non-black American citizens. These groups of people expect not much from African Americans, rather than being people without any history, prosperity, or success. When people like this see the covers of the Crisis publication, they stop believing these types of negative stereotypes and see what the Black experience in America is really like.
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