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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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piece of writing about fighting for black equality. Talks about soldiers education and how it keeps people universally poor

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WEB DuBois

Returning soldiers

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  • Talks about wanting to bring the black race from everywhere to Africa and make their own race there
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Africa for the Africans

Marcus Garvey

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Talks about marcus garvey and the story of him trying to bring africans to africa

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On Marcus Garvey

Mary White Ovington

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4
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Talks about how people should not try to be just an american poet but should embrace and talk about their racial experience and don’t conform like that. -might mention a mountain

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The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain

Langston Hughes

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5
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Talks about Art as propaganda

use art to bring up your race. have to represent race.

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WEB DuBois

Criteria of Negro Art

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6
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Once riding in old Baltimore… Called me Nigger poem

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Countee Cullen

Incident

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Poem about god and why things die and why they are in pain and “To make a poet black and bid him sing”

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Yet Do I Marvel

Countee Cullen

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Poem about what aftrica is to the writer…. kind of conflicted what the connection is… talks about god and religion a bit

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Heritage

Countee Cullen

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talks about rivers, huts by the congo, and souls

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Langston Hughes

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10
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Talks about sitting at the kitchen when company comes

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I, Too

Langston Hughes

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11
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Talks about America and compares it to other historical events

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America

Langston Hughes

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12
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go let de white boys look at your legs put oh your red silk stockings

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Red silk stockings

Langston hughes

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13
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about a prostitute making money in kichens and white men pay more money to her now then they ever did before

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Ruby Brown

Langston hughes

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14
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Talking about if we must die and monsters and hogs and open graves

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If We Must Die

Claude Mckay

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15
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Poem about a prostitute/ stripper who looks very beautiful but isnt really in the dance

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The Harlem Dancer

Claude McKay

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16
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talk about a lynching and they are keeping in from a woman

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The closing door

Angelina Wilde Grimke

17
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talks about a girl who used to sleep with a lot of men at a movie theater

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Cordelia the Crude

Wallace Thurman

18
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a wedding planned for her maid with lots of high class people

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countee cullen

From One way to Heaven

19
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story about a little rebellious girl running away from her grandmother

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Zora Neale Hurston

Drenched in Light

20
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poem about a mask that hides problems

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We Wear The Mask

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

21
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a poem with a lot of jump back honey jump backs

dialect

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A Negro Love Song

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

22
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dialect poem talking to baby with sparkling eyes

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Little Brown Baby

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

23
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speaking about casting buckets down, focus on dooing the physical work now and dont make the jump to going to harvard We can be separate but equal

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Booker T Washington

Atlanta Exposition Speech

24
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story about going in to africa and it is wild and creepy and barbarous

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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

25
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Talking about ota benga being put in a zoo

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Scandal at the Zoo

Mitch Keller

26
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Talks about how he disagrees with another man’s ideas on how to create equality and says that black people need to start creating and taking that big step

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Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.

WEB DuBois

27
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Talks about happy go lucky singing shuffling banjo picking blacks and about the use of dialect. Shouldnt be lost but shouldnt be used so that it is bringing down the race.

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James Weldon Johnson

The Book of American Negro Poetry

28
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Story about a Maid talking about her family and husbands and parents being slaves and being separtated. She speaks in dialect, other person doesnt

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Mary Elizabeth

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Harlem Renaissance (1 decks)

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