Module 6: The Black Arts Movement

Question 1

When and where did the Black Arts Movement occur?

Answer 1

1920s -1970s and USA (African Dispora), NYC and harlem

Question 2

Who wrote The Dutchman

Answer 2

Amiri Baraka (American writer)

Question 3

What did Amiri Baraka advocate for?

Answer 3

Theatre was a weapon against white supremacy

She inspired generation of AA writers

Question 4

Who wrote Color Struck

Answer 4

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 5

Main ideas of The Dutchman

Answer 5

Explosive one act allegory about a sensuous white woman who taunts and tease a black student on a subway then kills him

Question 6

Main ideas of Color Struck

Answer 6

• colorism (play starts on a rail coach named Jim Crow)
• use of slurs like darkies and coons

Emma faces jealousy and racism towards white / white presenting people

Question 7

Define: diaspora

Answer 7

New Harlem Renaissance by people who arrived in the US from the Caribbean diaspora

The dispersal of people from their homeland

Question 8

Define: colorism

Answer 8

Prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group