(Changes in culture) The Harlem Renaissance Flashcards
What did Harlem become the home of?
Give a specific example
Speakeasies
The Cotton Club
Race tensions - how did white americans interact with the Harlem Renaissance?
‘White tourism’ into Harlem as white middle-class young people visited the clubs.
Harlem was a ______ for black _________.
centre
intellectuals
Give examples of black intellectuals, for whom Harlem acted as a centre for.
Alain Locke and Langston Hughes.
Race tensions - the ____ ______ was associated with the Harlem Renaissance and _________ black ________.
a) The New Negro
b) championed
c) separatism
Race tensions - white tourism angered many African Americans.
Give an example.
The New Negro
Race tensions - who was the face of the New Negro?
What did they advocate for?
Marcus Garvey
Mass migration to Africa.
Race tensions - who opposed the New Negro?
The NAACP
Race tensions - who started the NAACP?
When?
W.E Dubois
1909
Who is Blanche Colloway?
African American singer, composer & bandleader & first woman to lead an all male orchestra.
Who is Josephine Baker?
Popular African American performer who symbolised black american beauty & culture.
However, she reinforced racial stereotypes by wearing a banana skirt.
Who are two examples of prominent African American people in this time?
Josephine Baker
Blanche Colloway
What was written at this time to celebrate the rebirth of black American culture and identity?
By who?
When?
The Making of Harlem
James Weldon Johnson
1925
Why was ‘The Making of Harlem’ by James Weldon Johnson in 1925 written?
To celebrate the rebirth of black American culture and identity.
Who coined the phrase the ‘Harlem Renaissance’?
James Weldon Johnson
Who wrote the song ‘The Weary Blues’?
Why?
Langston Hughes.
To reflect the black experience in America.
What were ‘Cotton Club’ and ‘Savoy’ examples of?
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.
Race tensions - how would you describe someone who identified themselves as a ‘new negro’?
As militant & less tolerant of white people.
What did the Harlem Renaissance flourish in spite of?
Poor living conditions as a result of discrimination in housing that led to ghettoisation.
Langston Hughes wrote ‘The Weary Blues’ with the hopes of capturing what?
The voice of those in Harlem
What was Harlem known to be despite poor living conditions?
A hub of activity and culture of African Americans.
Harlem is an example of a ______.
Ghetto
How did the population of Harlem change?
What did this lead to?
1914 - 50,000
1930, 165,000
Overcrowding and bad living conditions
What did James Weldon Johnson refer to Harlem as in ‘The Making of Harlem’, 1925?
‘A city within a city, the greatest Negro city in the world’.
What was ‘The Making of Harlem’?
An influential essay by James Weldon Johnson
