Harlem Flashcards
(14 cards)
The creation of ___ would serve to “uplift” the race
art and literature
An overt racial pride that came to be represented in the idea of that through
Intellect
Some famous authors during this time included
Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes
It was known as the “New Negro Movement” named after the anthology The Black People New Negro, edited by
Alain Locke in 1925
is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about ____ although its ideas lived on much longer
1919 until the early or mid 1930’s
The Harlem Renaissance would help lay the foundation of the civil rights movement.
W.E.B Dubois found the NAACP during this time.
Diversity and experimentation also flourished in the performing arts and were reflected in the blues signing of ____.
Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and in Jazz Music
In the visual arts, _______ style and incorporated
Aaron Douglas adopted deliberately “primitive”
Id
Id is the impulsive (and unconscious) part of our psyche which responds directly and immediately to the instincts.
Ego
Ego seeks pleasure and avoids pain but unlike the id the ego is concerned with devising a realistic strategy to obtain pleasure
Superego
Superego incorporates the values and morals of society which are learnt from ones parents and others
Marxist/Socioeconomic Criticism
Relate the context of a work to the social class status of the author. Explain the nature of a whole literary genre in terms of the social period which produced it.
Feminist/ Gender Criticism
Reading and analyzing texts on women and men’s place and power in culture and society.
The movement was centered in the _____, and impacted urban centers throughout the United States
Harlem neighborhood of New York City
