Harlem Renaissance Overview In the context of the postwar and reconstruction period of the United States, the Harlem Renaissance stands out as the dominant cultural revolution for Black Americans of the time and helped to establish Black intellectualism as a force worthy of recognition by the broader US public. Writers like W.E.B. Du Bois and… Continue reading Final Overview 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
My main takeaway from our class walking tour of Harlem was how much history took place in just the few blocks that we walked around on. Starting from the Schomburg Center and walking a few blocks uptown, and then heading west to Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Ave) before circling back down 135th, we passed multiple… Continue reading This Is Harlem
Blog Post 5 I really enjoyed reading “How It Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston, an essay in which she dives into her identity as a Black woman and the role that her childhood and upbringing played in shaping that identity. I knew for this blog post that I wanted to… Continue reading How It Felt to be Colored Zora
Blog #3 When looking through the archived Opportunity magazine, one of the things that jumped out to me was an image that we have seen in another reading that we have been looking at. At the end of Alain Locke’s essay “Enter the New Negro” in Survey Graphic, there is a drawn portrait of… Continue reading Creativity of the Harlem Renaissance