(Changes in culture) The Harlem Renaissance

Question 1

What did Harlem become the home of?

Give a specific example

Answer 1

Speakeasies

The Cotton Club

Question 2

Race tensions - how did white americans interact with the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 2

‘White tourism’ into Harlem as white middle-class young people visited the clubs.

Question 3

Harlem was a ______ for black _________.

Answer 3

centre

intellectuals

Question 4

Give examples of black intellectuals, for whom Harlem acted as a centre for.

Answer 4

Alain Locke and Langston Hughes.

Question 5

Race tensions - the ____ ______ was associated with the Harlem Renaissance and _________ black ________.

Answer 5

a) The New Negro
b) championed
c) separatism

Question 6

Race tensions - white tourism angered many African Americans.
Give an example.

Answer 6

The New Negro

Question 7

Race tensions - who was the face of the New Negro?

What did they advocate for?

Answer 7

Marcus Garvey

Mass migration to Africa.

Question 8

Race tensions - who opposed the New Negro?

Answer 8

The NAACP

Question 9

Race tensions - who started the NAACP?

When?

Answer 9

W.E Dubois

1909

Question 10

Who is Blanche Colloway?

Answer 10

African American singer, composer & bandleader & first woman to lead an all male orchestra.

Question 11

Who is Josephine Baker?

Answer 11

Popular African American performer who symbolised black american beauty & culture.
However, she reinforced racial stereotypes by wearing a banana skirt.

Question 12

Who are two examples of prominent African American people in this time?

Answer 12

Josephine Baker

Blanche Colloway

Question 13

What was written at this time to celebrate the rebirth of black American culture and identity?
By who?
When?

Answer 13

The Making of Harlem
James Weldon Johnson
1925

Question 14

Why was ‘The Making of Harlem’ by James Weldon Johnson in 1925 written?

Answer 14

To celebrate the rebirth of black American culture and identity.

Question 15

Who coined the phrase the ‘Harlem Renaissance’?

Answer 15

James Weldon Johnson

Question 16

Who wrote the song ‘The Weary Blues’?

Why?

Answer 16

Langston Hughes.

To reflect the black experience in America.

Question 17

What were ‘Cotton Club’ and ‘Savoy’ examples of?

Answer 17

Clubs for white people to watch black people perform, decorated in a way to resemble plantations.

Many black people opposed this and said it was like a zoo.

Question 18

Race tensions - how would you describe someone who identified themselves as a ‘new negro’?

Answer 18

As militant & less tolerant of white people.

Question 19

What did the Harlem Renaissance flourish in spite of?

Answer 19

Poor living conditions as a result of discrimination in housing that led to ghettoisation.

Question 20

Langston Hughes wrote ‘The Weary Blues’ with the hopes of capturing what?

Answer 20

The voice of those in Harlem

Question 21

What was Harlem known to be despite poor living conditions?

Answer 21

A hub of activity and culture of African Americans.

Question 22

Harlem is an example of a ______.

Answer 22

Ghetto

Question 23

How did the population of Harlem change?

What did this lead to?

Answer 23

1914 - 50,000
1930, 165,000

Overcrowding and bad living conditions

Question 24

What did James Weldon Johnson refer to Harlem as in ‘The Making of Harlem’, 1925?

Answer 24

‘A city within a city, the greatest Negro city in the world’.

Question 25

What was ‘The Making of Harlem’?

Answer 25

An influential essay by James Weldon Johnson