Test 1 Flashcards
piece of writing about fighting for black equality. Talks about soldiers education and how it keeps people universally poor
WEB DuBois
Returning soldiers
- Talks about wanting to bring the black race from everywhere to Africa and make their own race there
Africa for the Africans
Marcus Garvey
Talks about marcus garvey and the story of him trying to bring africans to africa
On Marcus Garvey
Mary White Ovington
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
The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes
Talks about Art as propaganda
use art to bring up your race. have to represent race.
WEB DuBois
Criteria of Negro Art
Once riding in old Baltimore… Called me Nigger poem
Countee Cullen
Incident
Poem about god and why things die and why they are in pain and “To make a poet black and bid him sing”
Yet Do I Marvel
Countee Cullen
Poem about what aftrica is to the writer…. kind of conflicted what the connection is… talks about god and religion a bit
Heritage
Countee Cullen
talks about rivers, huts by the congo, and souls
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes
Talks about sitting at the kitchen when company comes
I, Too
Langston Hughes
Talks about America and compares it to other historical events
America
Langston Hughes
go let de white boys look at your legs put oh your red silk stockings
Red silk stockings
Langston hughes
about a prostitute making money in kichens and white men pay more money to her now then they ever did before
Ruby Brown
Langston hughes
Talking about if we must die and monsters and hogs and open graves
If We Must Die
Claude Mckay
Poem about a prostitute/ stripper who looks very beautiful but isnt really in the dance
The Harlem Dancer
Claude McKay
talk about a lynching and they are keeping in from a woman
The closing door
Angelina Wilde Grimke
talks about a girl who used to sleep with a lot of men at a movie theater
Cordelia the Crude
Wallace Thurman
a wedding planned for her maid with lots of high class people
countee cullen
From One way to Heaven
story about a little rebellious girl running away from her grandmother
Zora Neale Hurston
Drenched in Light
poem about a mask that hides problems
We Wear The Mask
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
a poem with a lot of jump back honey jump backs
dialect
A Negro Love Song
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
dialect poem talking to baby with sparkling eyes
Little Brown Baby
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
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
Booker T Washington
Atlanta Exposition Speech
story about going in to africa and it is wild and creepy and barbarous
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Talking about ota benga being put in a zoo
Scandal at the Zoo
Mitch Keller
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
Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others.
WEB DuBois
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.
James Weldon Johnson
The Book of American Negro Poetry
Story about a Maid talking about her family and husbands and parents being slaves and being separtated. She speaks in dialect, other person doesnt
Mary Elizabeth
Jessie Redmon Fauset
