Looking through these texts such as “Passing” in 1929 written by Nella Larson, gazing or looking at “the other” is central. Although when it comes to gazing it is shown in a different variety of ways. Two of the ways I would like to speak on and emphasize on are colorism and passing and how… Continue reading Gazing on Colorism and Passing
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
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
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 pt 2
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)