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Colloquium 2991: The Harlem Renaissance 

Colloquium 2991: The Harlem Renaissance Syllabus

Assignments and Logistics

 

Author Biographies

Brief Bios

Readings

·        Excerpts Notes On The State of Virginia

·        Up From Slavery 1-2,5 by Booker T. Washington

·        The Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington

·        The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois

·        The Talented Tenth by W.E.B. DuBois

·        We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar

·        The Goophered Grapevine by Charles Chesnutt

·        Po Sandy by Charles Chesnutt

·        The Wife of Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line By Charles Chesnutt  (The Sheriff’s Children is also in this collection)

·        The New Negro by Alain Locke

·        The Negro-Art Hokum By George Schuyler

·        The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes 

·        Excerpts from The Best of Jesse B. Simple by Langston Hughes

·        Criteria for Negro Art by W.E.B. DuBois

·        How It Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neal Hurston

·        Claude McKay Poems

·        Countee Cullen Poetry

·        Langston Hughes Poetry

·        Richard Wright's Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God

·        Hurston's Review of Wright's Uncle Tom's Children

·        Blueprint for Negro Writing by Richard Wright

·        Big Boy Leaves Home by Richard Wright

·        Long Black Song by Richard Wright

·        Scarlet Sister Barry by Langston Hughes

·        The Organizer by Langston Hughes 

·         Young Black Joe by Langston Hughes

·        When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Levering Lewis