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The Harlem Renaissance And “The New Negro”
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Into Bondage, Aaron Douglas
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Aaron Douglas, Idylls of the Deep South, 1934
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Cafe, William H. Johnson
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The Janitor who Paints, Palmer Hayden
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William H. Johnson, Lamentation
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Street Life – Harlem William H. Johnson
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Going to Church William H. Johnson
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Loïs Mailou Jones Buddha, 1927
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Loïs Mailou Jones The Flight of Love, 1923
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Loïs Mailou Jones Female Figure, 1927
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Loïs Mailou Jones Negro Youth, 1929
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Les Fétiches, Lois Mailou Jones, 1938
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Loïs Mailou Jones Negro Shack I, Sedalia, North Carolina, 1930
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Aaron Douglas, Idylls of the Deep South, 1934
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Lenox Avenue Sargent Johnson
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Archibald J. Motley Jr Blues 1929
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James Van Derzee Alpha Phi Alpha Basketball Team, 1926
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Harlem Couple, James Van Derzee
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Zora Neale Hurston, "How it Feels to be Colored Me"... When I sit in the drafty basement that is The New World Cabaret with a white person, my color comes. We enter chatting about any little nothing that we have in common and are seated by the jazz waiters. In the abrupt way that jazz orchestras have, this one plunges into a number. It loses no time in circumlocutions, but gets right down to business. It constricts the thorax and splits the heart with its tempo and narcotic harmonies. This orchestra grows rambunctious, rears on its legs and attacks the tonal veil with primitive fury, rending it, clawing it until it breaks through to the jungle beyond. I follow those heathen--follow them exultingly. I dance wildly inside myself: I yell within, I whoop; I shake my assegai above my head, I hurl it true to the mark yeeeeeoww! I am in the jungle and living in the jungle way. My face is painted red and yellow and my body is painted blue. My pulse is throbbing like a war drum. I want to slaughter something--give pain, give death--to what, I do not know. But the piece ends. The men of the orchestra wipe their lips and rest their fingers. I creep back slowly to the veneer we call civilization with the last tone and find the white friend sitting motionelss in his seat, smoking calmly. "Good music they have here," he remarks, drumming the table with his fingertips. Music. The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us. He is so pale with his whiteness then and I am so colored.
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