The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Flashcards
old negro
a myth not a man, stick figure, sentimentalism & reactionism (distorted)
new negro
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”
big ideas of the harlem renaissance
Internationalism
Mobility
Authencity vs Patronage
Gender Activism
internationalism
into and out of the U.S, this created solidarity across geopolitical borders)
Collaboration
Politics
authenticity
defined by the abject identity of what is non authentic
patronage
Wealthy support black artist
gender activism
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
garveyism
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
diaspora
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”
authenticity vs patronage
commodification of black Culture, white sponsorship (Harmon Foundation), black artist leveraging their own representation..(self & externally) pressure imposed placed upon an individual.
propaganda
Both sides should have it because if one side has only then you only see one view of black people
double-conciousness
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”
the talented 10th
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.
P.I.R.R.C.
Production, Identity, Regulation, Representation, Consumption
black journalism
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.
primitivism
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
katherine Dunham
Anthropologist. Concert Dance (Ballet). Added in elements of folk dance. Move away from a connotation primitivism is inferior and simple.
concert
josephine baker
Banana dance. Played into primitivism rather than politics of Respectability.
folk
Zora Hurston
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
critical fabulation
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
interest convergence
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.
cultural nationalism
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
oppositional gaze
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)
growing into blackness
salimu
family portrait
caldwell
slave ship
barracka
Spectacular Blackness
Ongiti
Afro Images
angela davis
The Black Revolutionary Artist
James Stewart
a voice in the wilderness
doug seroff
harriet beecher stowe
uncle tom’s cabin
new negro
alain locke
a sunday morning in the south
georgia douglas johnson
criteria of negro art
dubois
the negro artist and the racial mountain
hughes
old man pete
s randolph edmonds
i too sing america
langston hughes
if we must die
claude mckay
come let us build a new world together
leigh raiford
cheryl clarke
after mecca: women poets
Motown: dancing in the street
susane smith
expressive culture
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
popular culture
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
