tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41204797629268892992024-03-05T01:40:07.109-08:00Women of the Harlem RenaissanceAfrican American Women in the Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019537277092388030noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120479762926889299.post-79081623565049223052011-04-25T22:30:00.000-07:002011-04-29T16:34:39.076-07:00Harlem Renaissance: History<!--StartFragment--> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0xex7jjzvLfaTH7Cp2PceHPASE_6fbUIZxOs-AsRRNBgb1raOn0lpDcyX3MzMYfTtPHDsTDVlhDrwX8IeQQDyfI3WEZoVNJFENcHd-JLuIBBsSC_3GHlOCnjIRwP5dzmOt0TbXeYJE8/s1600/16257.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW0xex7jjzvLfaTH7Cp2PceHPASE_6fbUIZxOs-AsRRNBgb1raOn0lpDcyX3MzMYfTtPHDsTDVlhDrwX8IeQQDyfI3WEZoVNJFENcHd-JLuIBBsSC_3GHlOCnjIRwP5dzmOt0TbXeYJE8/s200/16257.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Harlem Renaissance began around 1918 to 1920 and was an era of African American art. The period was sparked by literary discussions in lower Manhattan (Greenwich Village) and Upper Manhattan (Harlem and New York City). The movement was known as the “New Negro Movement” coined by Alain Leroy Locke in 1925. The “New Negro” was a term related to African Americans during the Great Migration who had moved from the south to northern cities in the United States in search of better education, employment, and suffrage. “The New Negro” was utilized to describe African Americans as artistic, conscious and sophisticated, as opposed to the stereotypes of African Americans being innately servile. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnILgW92AAZIbGKF7n0YXfyJ3fhxc4HskcI18ytshEYErq6JRS1L29cW2-YVblgCOKyrtK0u9-jcbXN0d243dHpjC89WH8Q0TRnOfixd8jziUK8Osdo8y3Si8M5OW61Yj-59yLtqjrAGg/s1600/16363.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnILgW92AAZIbGKF7n0YXfyJ3fhxc4HskcI18ytshEYErq6JRS1L29cW2-YVblgCOKyrtK0u9-jcbXN0d243dHpjC89WH8Q0TRnOfixd8jziUK8Osdo8y3Si8M5OW61Yj-59yLtqjrAGg/s200/16363.jpg" width="119" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Harlem Renaissance was known as having a militant edge. The era acted as a celebration and development of the intellectual achievements of African Americans. It was also described as a literary movement and social revolt against the racism implemented by Jim Crow Laws. This period was utilized to recreate the Black identity through varied mediums: music, literature, visual art, and entertainment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Harlem Renaissance also sparked the notion of the “New Negro Woman”, relating to women poets, authors and intellectuals, known for their race conscious writing. Women in the Harlem Renaissance played a vital role as the voice for the struggling minority of African American women. African American women utilized the movement to express their views on race and gender relations.</span></div><!--EndFragment-->African American Women in the Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019537277092388030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120479762926889299.post-29843580875087822872011-04-25T19:47:00.000-07:002011-04-25T22:51:19.000-07:00Women of the Movement<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;"><u>Writers<o:p></o:p></u></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Zora Neal Hurston </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Nella Larsen </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Angelina Weld Grimke<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Georgia Douglas Johnson<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Gwendolyn Bennett<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Alice Dunbar Nelson<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Jesse Fauset<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Marita Bonner<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Eulalie Spence<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Dorothy West<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>Helene Johnson<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Josephine Baker in Moulin Rouge (1940)</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div></div>African American Women in the Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019537277092388030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120479762926889299.post-92131398103295317282011-04-25T19:46:00.000-07:002011-04-25T19:54:42.850-07:00Blues Women Vs. Club Women<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;">During this period, African American women were apart of the 1<sup>st</sup> wave of the Women’s Movement in defining their “respectability”. The views on respectability ranged from the Club Women to Blues Women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Club Women were out to establish equal rights and change the perception of black women as being prostitutes and thieves. However, Blues Women wanted to establish economic independence from men and take part in leisure, such as gambling, sex and drinking. The idea of “respectability” was important to the African American women’s new identity as opposed to the constructed identity placed on them by white society. </div><!--EndFragment-->African American Women in the Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019537277092388030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120479762926889299.post-4390294528010823872011-04-25T19:45:00.000-07:002011-04-28T08:12:58.969-07:00Excerpt from a Blues Woman’s Diary: Ada Smith<!--StartFragment--> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><!--StartFragment--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">March 15, 1922<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;">I figured I would write a little record of my journey, since I plan on leaving Columbus, Georgia. My name is Ruth Smith but I want my stage name to be Ada Smith. I always liked that name better. I wanna see the world and sing for people. I wanna be a great Blues Singer. I know I got the voice and the talent. All I need is a chance to show people. Because I have a lot to show. I told Momma today that I’m tired of cleaning and fixing up white folks houses. We work from early in the morning to late at night and I’m tired of it. I wanna be the one they pay to see on a big stage with a live band behind me. But she don’t pay me no mind. We have to sneak food out those white folks houses, just to put food on the table. Even though we are “raiding the pantries” (Jones, 2010, p. 128), Momma calls it “early pay.” But for fun, I go to the Green Shack to perform, hoping someone will find me and take me out of here. <o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I told my momma I gotta go<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I told my sista I gotta go<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I told my friends I gotta go<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I gotta get outta here<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">They say hush up now<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Hush up, Sally<o:p></o:p></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">You aint goin nowhere<o:p></o:p></div><!--EndFragment--> <br />
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<!--EndFragment-->African American Women in the Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019537277092388030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4120479762926889299.post-86083718825510196832011-04-25T19:43:00.000-07:002011-04-28T08:14:41.644-07:00Women of the Cotton Club<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Cotton Club was a popular nightclub in Harlem during the Prohibition that was established in 1923. The entertainers and servers at the club were African American; however, the clientele was white. Well-known female artists that performed at the nightclub were Ethel Waters, Lena Horne and The Dandridge Sisters. The Cotton Club was known for supporting black stereotypes, by providing animalistic costumes to the dancers and creating oppressive segregation in the club. The dancers at the nightclub were hired under austere and prejudiced standards. They had to be at least 5 feet, 6 inches, light-skinned, and below the age of 21.</span> </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY7Ud2ItPOLqexo6GlfkdV0uzHSsMOVv957HHA_OT6kbmPPxoetByfhNPMj4iieYF3DovfXN0SnBJcd0btvT1vBxku4iRDTNrLXyju2xJ3KfLN8I8YXxXeAxA8v9EFVhXItHhN8JAZRW4/s1600/bennetpainting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY7Ud2ItPOLqexo6GlfkdV0uzHSsMOVv957HHA_OT6kbmPPxoetByfhNPMj4iieYF3DovfXN0SnBJcd0btvT1vBxku4iRDTNrLXyju2xJ3KfLN8I8YXxXeAxA8v9EFVhXItHhN8JAZRW4/s320/bennetpainting.jpg" width="320" /></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>To A Dark Girl<o:p></o:p></u></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">I love you for your brownness,</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">And the rounded darkness of your breast, </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">And shadows where your wayward eyelids rest.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Something of old forgotten queens</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">And something of the shackled slave</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Sobs in the rhythm of your talk.</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow’s mate,</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Keep all you have of the queenliness, </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Forgetting that you once were slave,</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">And let your full lips laugh at fate</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">- Gwendolyn Bennett</i></b></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br />
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<b><i><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">White Things</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></u></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><br />
</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Most things are colorful things – they sky, earth and sea.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Black men are most men; but the white are free!</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">White things are rare things; so rare, so rare</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnRLClirzp6YDbN0sim-6ImkNtSpu097p3qDvTFS8sZtJ69AU9kbMSnWDJKkhjHEZRW0tQ1m6b63OMM-PbWOJmjUfVoq8b7b5JqZcSI2FdGFFzazWYKR5A5laxY75f4ZTTdUM9cYmhog/s1600/240px-Anne_Bethel_Spencer_in_her_wedding_dress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnRLClirzp6YDbN0sim-6ImkNtSpu097p3qDvTFS8sZtJ69AU9kbMSnWDJKkhjHEZRW0tQ1m6b63OMM-PbWOJmjUfVoq8b7b5JqZcSI2FdGFFzazWYKR5A5laxY75f4ZTTdUM9cYmhog/s320/240px-Anne_Bethel_Spencer_in_her_wedding_dress.jpg" width="225" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They stole from out a silvered world—somewhere.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Finding earth-plains fair plains, save greenly grassed,</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They strewed white feathers of cowardice, as they passed</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They golden stars with lances fine</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The hills all red and darkened pine,</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They blanched with their wand of power;</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And turned the blood in a ruby rose</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">To a poor white poppy-flower.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They pyred a race of black, black men,</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Laughing, A young one claimed a skull,</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For the skull of a black is white, not dull,</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">But a glistening awful thing;</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Made, it seems, for this ghoul to swing</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">And swear by the hell that sired him:</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">“Man-maker, make white!</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">- Anne Bethel Spencer</span><o:p></o:p></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br />
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