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
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
This first thing I noticed about Kim Gallon’s essay was her used of the terms “black,” “Africana” and “African American,” in terms of which one is more appropriate to use. This reading informed me that the term “digital humanities” exist. Gallon wrote, “Although work on racial, ethnic, and national difference is emerging in the digital… Continue reading Hot Take: Black Digital Humanities
If you’re an American, the phrase “land of opportunity” is very familiar, and depending on how patriotic you are it may be a phrase that’s close to your heart. First used during the western expansion, the Homestead Act offered people of all races the opportunity to move west and claim government land for cheap to… Continue reading Harlem: The Land of Opportunity
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)
Option 1: Uploading a filmed video to Youtube (so it can easily be embedded into the blog): Go to youtube.com and sign into your account. If you do not have one, Watch the following video to set up your account and channel if you don’t have one (in the advanced options we can change the visibility… Continue reading Creating a Preview Video for your Blog
Chapter 2 of Word, Image, and the New Negro : Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance Anne Elizabeth Carroll assesses Black representation in The Opportunity, and it’s dedication to objectivity. In it, she explains that The Opportunity’s editor, Charles Spurgeon Johnson, felt objectivity was necessary for “challenging assumptions about why African Americans were leaving the… Continue reading Harlem and the New White Man’s Burden — blog 3 (Final)
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
Harlem’s characteristics are distinctive because of African descendant’s great contributions to New York City. The origins of this unique section of Manhattan are significant because of the neighborhood’s transformation from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negro. Black people’s occupancy left a long-lasting effect on Harlem that was directly… Continue reading The Making of Black Excellence
What makes a place special? Is it the people who own property in the area? The people who first resided on the lands? To me what makes a place what it is, is the community and what people do in them that are significant in forming a place’s identity. Everything that surrounds a place gives… Continue reading Who I am is Where I’m from and What I’ve done, not What I Own