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1 Modernism, part one The Harlem Renaissance

2 Key Dates in American Lit. 1920’s 1926—Hughes, Hemingway 1933—Gertrude Stein

3 History 1917—World War I 1919—Prohibition 1920—urban population is more than rural 1922—Louis Armstrong 1927—Charles Lindbergh 1929—Stock Market Crash 1932—FDR elected President

4 World Events 1920—Hitler takes control of Nazi party 1928—Josef Stalin becomes dictator of the Soviet Union 1933—Hitler takes control of Germany 1939—Germany invades Poland

5 A New Cultural Identity Harlem Renaissance—New York City Drew whites and blacks to city Cotton Club Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington

6 H.R., cont. Marcus Garvey—back to Africa movement Langston Hughes The Weary Blues

7 H.R., cont. Zora Neale Hurston Countee Cullen Gwendolyn Brooks Toni Morrison

8 A Final Thought “Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.” Louis Armstrong When asked what jazz is

9 Author Study of Langston Hughes Born in Joplin, MO High School in Cleveland, OH Trip to Mexico inspired “The Negro Speaks of Rivers Columbia University did not work out Sudden Fame

10 Hughes, cont. An Influential Career Protested racial discrimination Jim Crow laws

11 Past assignment Read 912-923 and outline. Read and listen to pp. 923-939 with jazz accompaniment.

12 Present Assignment Discuss and collect responses to Hughes’ work; Read “Any Human to Another” by Countee Cullen (pp. 941-42); supplement with “Incident”; Read “How it Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston (pp. 951-954) and answer discussion questions in class.

13 Present Assignment, cont. Read “My Dungeon Shook” by James Baldwin (pp. 960-63); write 5-minute response; Read “Life for My Child is Simple” and “Primer for Blacks” by Gwendolyn Brooks (pp. 968-70); supplement by listening to “We Real Cool” on cd.

14 Future Assignments Discuss and collect responses to Baldwin’s work; Read Toni Morrison’s “Thoughts on the African- American Novel” (pp. 974-75); write a 5-minute response due by the end of the hour; review for open-book test on the Modern Age, part one 2/24--Open-book test on Modern Age, part one

15 Here Endeth the Lesson Produced by Mr. Jackson Directed by Slappy White Copyright MCMLXXXIII

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