Harlem Renaissance Literature Learning Guide: Table of Contents
MoreHarlem Renaissance Literature Learning Guide: Table of Contents
IntroductionTop 10 List
Million Dollar Questions
Characteristics
The Jazz Age
Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry (1929)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Modernism
Jean Toomer, "Portrait in Georgia" from Cane (1923)
Jean Toomer, "Becky" from Cane (1923)
The Great Migration
James Weldon Johnson, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (1899)
Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry (1929)
Racial Division
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
Langston Hughes, "I, Too, Sing America" (1945)
Duality ("Twoness")
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
The "New Negro"
Alain Locke, "Enter the New Negro" (1925)
Langston Hughes, The Big Sea (1945)
Urbanity
Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry (1929)
Socialism/Communism
James Weldon Johnson, Black Manhattan (1930)
Claude McKay, "Soviet Russia and the Negro" (1923)
Pan-Africanism
Marcus Garvey, "The Negro's Greatest Enemy" (1923)
High/Low Culture
Zora Neale Hurston, "Introduction" from Mules and Men (1935)
Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B" (1949)
Top Authors
Langston Hughes
W.E.B. Du Bois
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
Marcus Garvey
Timeline
Texts
Module Quizzes
But is it the Harlem Renaissance? Identifying Quotes
The Harlem Renaissance's Obsessions: Themes and Symbols
The Whos and Whats of the Harlem Renaissance
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