When first reading Nella Larson’s Passing (1929) the piece can seem to be about the conflicted emotions of light-skinned black women who pass for being white when in the presence of majority-white people. Taking a deeper look into the text you can see that the relationship between Irene and her friend Clare there is more… Continue reading Sexuality Hidden In Plain Sight
having your own space =afrofuturism, futuristic, not on earth, anti blackness is a global issue and to escapee’s it we have to leave the planet. reimagining black people in cultural art, Countee Cullen poem(“Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen); insets the black experience with classical references, similar to how the artists relied on… Continue reading afrofurturist room
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 advocate… Continue reading Fighting for New Identity in the Social Progress during the Harlem Renaissance
While reading the Opportunity by Charles Johnson, the passages that stood out to me were The Corner By Eunice Hunton Carter and The High Cost of Keeping the Negro Inferior By John C. Wright because of the way perspective is utilized in each passage to explain the subtle and not so subtle wealth and class… Continue reading Different Sides of The Same Coin: the marginalization, objectification of African Americans
Pull yourself up by your own bootstrap” intrigued me. The phrase’s commonly accepted meaning evolved, and now when we tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” it’s implying that socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to do. I thought this statement to be deceptive since the wealthy get government assistance… Continue reading The Pull yourself up Theory
While reading the Opportunity by Charles Johnson the passages that stood out to me were The Corner By Eunice Hunton Carter(pg 114) and The High Cost of Keeping the Negro Inferior By John C. Wright (pg 116) because of the element of perspective each passage held. How in Carter’s The Corner from the very beginning… Continue reading blog post 3 draft 2
Harlem being dubbed as the “New Mecca for Negros” is very indicative of the kinds of mindsets of some of the people who moved there. Typically, when people think of the Harlem Renaissance they think of the abundant contributions by black people in the arts, media, literature, and music. In all of these forms of… Continue reading Man, Martyr, Moses, Menace, or Just Marcus
While reading the Opportunity by Charles Johnson the passage The Corner By Eunice Hunton Carter(pg 50) stood out to me, The way this story is told from the very beginning to the end we can see the different lifestyles lived from. the very first paragraph “My friend lives in the house on the corner. She… 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