The Harlem Renaissance : a historical exploration of literature /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Santa Barbara, California :
Greenwood,
2015.
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| Series: | Historical explorations of literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; I Introduction and Background to the Harlem Renaissance; II Chronology; III The Poetry of Claude McKay and Langston Hughes; Historical Background; About Claude McKay; About Langston Hughes; Historical Exploration: Race Riots of 1919; Newspaper Reports of Riots; From ""A Crowd of Howling Negroes,"" 1919; From ""Street Battles at Night,"" 1919; From ""Ghastly Deeds of Race Rioters Told,"" 1919; Responses to the Riots; From Walter White, ""N.A.A.C.P.-Chicago and Its Eight Reasons,"" 1919; From "The Chicago Commission on Race Relations," 1922
- Discussion QuestionsSuggested Readings; Historical Exploration: Re-invigoration of the Ku Klux Klan; Legal Responses to the Ku Klux Klan; Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 1868; From the Ku Klux Klan Act, 1871; William Garrott Brown's Interpretation of the History of the Ku Klux Klan; From William Garrott Brown, ""The Ku Klux Movement,"" 1901; Newspaper Reports on the Ku Klux Klan; ""Atlanta's Ku-Klux Klan,"" 1906; ""Ku Klux Klan Celebrates,"" 1921; ""Ku Klux Denounced from Many Pulpits,"" 1922; ""Ku Klux Klansmen March into Church,"" 1922; Discussion Questions
- Suggested ReadingsHistorical Exploration: The Russian Revolution and Attraction of the Communist Party among American Writers; Communist Party Writing; From Communist Party of America, Pamphlet No. 1, 1919; From Manifesto of the Communist Party of America, 1922; Newspaper Report on Communism and Race; ""Negro's Rights Here Derided in Moscow,"" 1922; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; Why We Read the Poetry of Claude McKay and Langston Hughes Today; IV Cane; Historical Background; About Jean Toomer; Historical Exploration: Lynching; Ida B. Wells
- From Ida B. Wells, ""Lynch Law in America,"" 1900Magazine Reports of Lynching; ""Colored Men Protest,"" 1892; ""Southern Protests against Lynching,"" 1898; Newspaper Reports on Lynching; ""Lynching in Georgia,"" 1897; ""Woman Advocates Lynching,"" 1898; Arthur A. Schomburg, ""Lynching a Savage Relic,"" 1903; The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill; Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, 1922; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; Historical Exploration: Prohibition; Temperance Songs; Mary Lantz, ""The Drunkard and His Family,"" 1854; Stephen G. Foster, ""Comrades, Fill No Glass for Me,"" 1855
- J. M. Kieffer, ""The Temperance Army,"" 1874Legal Documents Addressing Prohibition; Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1919; From the Volstead Act, 1920; The Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 1933; Newspaper Articles Reporting on Prohibition; From ""Whole Country Goes Dry,"" 1919; From ""Nation-Wide Prohibition Ends Fight of 112 Years,"" 1920; Discussion Questions; Suggested Readings; Why We Read Cane Today; V Passing and Quicksand; Historical Background; About Nella Larsen; Historical Exploration: Racial Definitions and Passing; Definitions of Race