This course will explore the period of African American culture known popularly as Harlem Renaissance through its literature as well as its stage, visual arts, and music. We will read the March 1925 issue of The Survey Graphic that officially recognized the movement, Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro, guest edited by Alain Locke, as well as essays, fiction, and poetry by Du Bois, Locke, Johnson, Garvey, Schuyler, McKay, Fauset, Toomer, Larsen, Hurston, West, Fisher, Nugent, Bennett, Hughes, Cullen, Bontemps. We will listen to music (Gladys Bentley, Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll, Rainey, Bechet, Armstrong, Henderson, Ellington, among others) and view African American art (Tanner, Lewis, Motley, Hayden, Jones, and Bearden; Alston, Covarrubias, and Douglas; Savage, and Barthe, VanDerZee, Van Vechten, and Micheaux). Format: discussion/seminar. Requirements: your weekly journal entries will lead to two short papers and a longer final paper. Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, except 150. Enrollment limit: 25 (expected: 25). (Post-1900)

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