The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro

Question 1

old negro

Answer 1

a myth not a man, stick figure, sentimentalism & reactionism (distorted)

Question 2

new negro

Answer 2

defined by blacks, reflects truth not just historical fiction that were put in place to justify the distribution of resources, black peoples taking ownership and Plight of their own identity and
QUOTE- Blacks have the moral authority “on the right side” of American ideals, “We cannot be undone w/out America’s undoing”

Question 3

big ideas of the harlem renaissance

Answer 3

Internationalism
Mobility
Authencity vs Patronage
Gender Activism

Question 4

internationalism

Answer 4

into and out of the U.S, this created solidarity across geopolitical borders)
Collaboration
Politics

Question 5

authenticity

Answer 5

defined by the abject identity of what is non authentic

Question 6

patronage

Answer 6

Wealthy support black artist

Question 7

gender activism

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during this time gender activism was erupting in the US and within Black communities women began to produce work and fight for their voice and that they experience an intersectional version of blackness

Question 8

garveyism

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The ideology of Garveyism centers on the unification and empowerment of African-American men, women and children under the banner of their collective African descent

Question 9

diaspora

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unsaid dispersal of culture to one origin multiple place, un said exchange of influence traveled across multiple routes (the in-between) it’s a site of contestation. “The transnational approach to the black identity that focuses not only on the African roots and cultural continuities, but also on the routes, ruptures and cross-cultural exchanges that are equally constitutive of the black diaspora”

Question 10

authenticity vs patronage

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commodification of black Culture, white sponsorship (Harmon Foundation), black artist leveraging their own representation..(self & externally) pressure imposed placed upon an individual.

Question 11

propaganda

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Both sides should have it because if one side has only then you only see one view of black people

Question 12

double-conciousness

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black people had to leverage their identity and how American society perceived their blackness. “kinda like I know who I am, but I have to know how you think I am”

Question 13

the talented 10th

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Black folks should invest in the most intelligent, and up and coming individuals so that when that individual makes it they will eventually uplift the whole community with them.

Question 14

P.I.R.R.C.

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Production, Identity, Regulation, Representation, Consumption

Question 15

black journalism

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was a counter-representation, circulating images to document white brutality and black victimization
Reminder that the unintended consequence of segregation was the creation of the prosperous entrepreneurial black middle class.

Question 16

primitivism

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A hierarchy that set western culture above indigenous and other cultures. Creates a binary that you are either civilized (White) or (ethnic unassimilated). Idea that whiteness will lead and the rest will follow

Question 17

katherine Dunham

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Anthropologist. Concert Dance (Ballet). Added in elements of folk dance. Move away from a connotation primitivism is inferior and simple.
concert

Question 18

josephine baker

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Banana dance. Played into primitivism rather than politics of Respectability.
folk

Question 19

Zora Hurston

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Anthropologist. Removed from anthropologists from study move away from. Portrayed complexity by writing in dialect and presenting multifaceted black characters that belonged to the “lower classes”
entertainer

Question 20

critical fabulation

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A method of cultural production that attempts to make sense of silences and gaps of diasporic blackness through the mixed use of historical research and fictional narratives

Question 21

interest convergence

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only care about groups needs and them being met (not really about other groups needs); it is a principle that states that people will only act on behalf of another group if your interest converges with another group.

Question 22

cultural nationalism

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an ideological framework that sees people united on the basis of CULTURE rather than geopolitical space (e.g. Black Power movement), with elements of nationhood

Question 23

oppositional gaze

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both informs Afro Americans of the oppressive social field in which they must operate, and opens up the possibility of agency itself. (connection to double-consciousness: having to see how people characterize you and how it does not align with who you are)

Question 24

growing into blackness

Answer 24

salimu

Question 25

family portrait

Answer 25

caldwell

Question 26

slave ship

Answer 26

barracka

Question 27

Spectacular Blackness

Answer 27

Ongiti

Question 28

Afro Images

Answer 28

angela davis

Question 29

The Black Revolutionary Artist

Answer 29

James Stewart

Question 30

a voice in the wilderness

Answer 30

doug seroff

Question 31

harriet beecher stowe

Answer 31

uncle tom’s cabin

Question 32

new negro

Answer 32

alain locke

Question 33

a sunday morning in the south

Answer 33

georgia douglas johnson

Question 34

criteria of negro art

Answer 34

dubois

Question 35

the negro artist and the racial mountain

Answer 35

hughes

Question 36

old man pete

Answer 36

s randolph edmonds

Question 37

i too sing america

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langston hughes

Question 38

if we must die

Answer 38

claude mckay

Question 39

come let us build a new world together

Answer 39

leigh raiford

Question 40

cheryl clarke

Answer 40

after mecca: women poets

Question 41

Motown: dancing in the street

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susane smith

Question 42

expressive culture

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processes, emotions, and ideas bound within the social production of aesthetic forms and performances in everyday life. It is a way to embody culture and express cultures through sensory experiences such as dance, music, literature, visual media, and theatre

Question 43

popular culture

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it can be understood as dominant culture; it is a social construct about what is allowed to be understood as important; it is as much about profit as it is about regulation