200115 pages
Excerpt, Critical es...
1390LWAYNE F. COOPER Introduction FROM THE PERSPECTIVE of literary history, Claude McKay’s reputation as a pioneer in the development of twentieth-century African American literature seems secure. His literary influence...
200214 pages
Critical essay, Biog...
Introduction T HE JAMAICAN-BORN Claude McKay was one of the most influential African American writers of the twentieth century. As a prolific poet, political essayist, novelist, and short story writer, McKay helped...
199912 pages
Poem explanation, Cr...
Claude McKay 1922 Claude McKay was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a time of unprecedented artistic achievement from African Americans during the 1920s and early 1930s. McKay grew up in Jamaica, which...
201828 pages
Critical essay, Work...
CLAUDE MCKAY 1928 Claude McKay's 1928 novel, Home to Harlem, published by Harper & Brothers, was instantly famous. He told about Harlem life from the inside, from a black man's point of view. He did not pull any...
20044 pages
Excerpt
Essay By: James Weldon Johnson Date: 1922 Source: Johnson, James Weldon. Preface to The Book of American Negro Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1922. Reprint, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1958....
20082 pages
City overview
1340L“In the history of New York,” begins James Weldon Johnson’s authoritative 1930s history Black Manhattan, “the significance of the name Harlem has changed from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negro” (p. 3). Though Johnson’s...
20082 pages
Biography
1090LSekhukhune I was the paramount chief of the Pedi and a military leader in northeastern Transvaal. He was born about 1810 to Sekwati (r. 1775-1861), ruler of the Marota (also called the Pedi) of the Transvaal region of...
20114 pages
Topic overview
The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing of the arts that occurred in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City during the 1920s and into the 1930s. The movement was reflected in literature, music, drama, dance, and the...
20083 pages
Topic overview
1710LThe Harlem Renaissance (c. 1918–1935) was a blossoming of African American creative arts associated with the larger New Negro movement, a multifaceted phenomenon that helped set the directions African American writers...
20191 page
Topic overview
College teacher, writer, literary critic. Educ: Yale Univ, BA, 1990; Columbia Univ, MA, 1992, PhD, 1998. Career: Rutgers Univ, prof; Columbia Univ (New York), Louis Armstrong Vis prof Jazz Studies, Dept Eng & Comparative...
20072 pages
Topic overview
1670LNegritude is an African diasporic, self-affirming idea that evolved into an artistic and cultural movement and later became a lightening rod for controversy and ideological disputes. The (re)valorization of the black...
199117 pages
Critical essay, Biog...
Introduction WHENEVER JESSIE FAUSET is cited as a writer of the Harlem Renaissance, a predictable response follows: Who is he? Those familiar with the movement know that Jessie was a she, but their knowledge of her...
20103 pages
Critical essay, Work...
In 1916, Frank joined the critics James Oppenheim and Van Wyck Brooks in founding the Seven Arts, a magazine dedicated to innovative criticism, literary experimentation, and other written expressions of the emerging...
20082 pages
Biography
1340LIn 2004 Ousmane Sembène’s film Moolaadé (winner of the Cannes 2004 Un Certain Regard category) was named Best Foreign Film by the American National Society of Film Critics. On June 19, 2006, Sembène was elevated by the...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )
2001
Biography
1330LBLACK NATIONALIST, EDITOR Although he lived in the United States a mere eleven of his fifty-three years, Marcus Garvey had a tremendous impact on African American consciousness after 1917, as well as in the years after...
199112 pages
Biography, Critical ...
Introduction The Black woman must remember, through all the prattle about walking or not walking three or twelve steps behind or ahead of “her” male, that her personhood precedes her femalehood; that, sweet as sex may...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 3: 1920-1929. )
2001
Topic overview
1230LIn 1925 a New York Herald Tribune article announced, "we are on the edge, if not in the midst, of what might not improperly be called a Negro Renaissance." The causes of this renaissance—as with all such movements—were...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )
2001
Biography
1240LEDITOR, LABOR LEADER In the latter half of the 1910s, when any dissent against American government policy could be punished by a long prison term, A. Philip Randolph was one of the nation's most vociferous dissidents,...
Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades
(Vol. 3: 1920-1929. )
2001
Topic overview
1290LAfter World War I America replaced Britain and France as the strongest cultural force in the world. The shift resulted not only from America's financial power but from Europe's war casualties. Britain and France, as well...
20076 pages
Topic overview
1420LIn 1492 Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) set sail to find a western overseas passage to Asia and to carry the cause of Christendom to its far shores. When his ships reached what he thought was Asia he named the people he...
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WAYNE F. COOPER Introduction FROM THE PERSPECTIVE of literary history, Claude McKay’s reputation as a pioneer in the development of twentieth-century African American literature seems secure. His literary influence...
Claude McKay 1922 Claude McKay was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a time of unprecedented artistic achievement from African Americans during the 1920s and early 1930s. McKay grew up in Jamaica, which...
Sekhukhune I was the paramount chief of the Pedi and a military leader in northeastern Transvaal. He was born about 1810 to Sekwati (r. 1775-1861), ruler of the Marota (also called the Pedi) of the Transvaal region of...