Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992)
Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s- 30s Racial pride Progressive/socialist politics Cross cultural (literature, art, music, theatre) Harlem as urban locus of African American life: a “city within a city” Black gentility or Africanist primitivism? Archibald Motley, ‘Saturday Night’ (1935)
East St. Louis Riots, 1917
Los Angeles Riots, 1992
Jazz and Jazz – theme and form