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
Firstly, I am so grateful to have the opportunity to attend this trip. This tour and the tour guide answered all my childhood questions about the place I grew up in, Harlem. I went to St. Aloysius for elementary school and middle school on 132nd ST, my grandfather is super for a building on St.… Continue reading Walking in their Footsteps: Harlem Walking Tour
Within the Black community, there are interconnected social struggles or forms of discrimination known as intersectionality. Although this is a new term, intersectionality has been an issue in the Black community since the Harlem Renaissance. According to Kimberle Crenshaw, creator of the term, intersectionality acknowledges the unique experiences of discrimination and privilege people go through.… Continue reading Intersectionality in Harlem
In The Crisis, Survey Graphic, Opportunity, and perhaps the majority of black writing to come out of this time period exists not only a similar goal of the advancement of the black race, but also a yearning for a higher, more perfect way of being and living. It was not enough for Black thinkers at… Continue reading Mythologies of a New Negro and a Black Utopia – Final
In The Crisis, Survey Graphic, Opportunity, and perhaps the majority of black writing to come out of this time period exists not only a similar goal of the advancement of the black race, but also a yearning for a higher, more perfect way of being and living. It was not enough for black thinkers at… Continue reading Mythologies of a New Negro and a Black Utopia
The Harlem Renneasiacce was in part defined by the creative and intellectual output spanning the likes of theater, literature, music, etc. And while that creative output makes up the parts of the defining era, at the center of the movement and why it was so successful was the physical location which became representative of the… Continue reading Harlem: A Black Mecca