The Black Chicago Renaissance

The Black Chicago Renaissance
Author: Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252094395

Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Unlike Harlem, Chicago was an urban industrial center that gave a unique working class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work being done in Chicago. This collection's various essays discuss the forces that distinguished the Black Chicago Renaissance from the Harlem Renaissance and placed the development of black culture in a national and international context. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender and Tivoli Theater, African American music and visual arts, and the American Negro Exposition of 1940. Contributors are Hilary Mac Austin, David T. Bailey, Murry N. DePillars, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Erik S. Gellman, Jeffrey Helgeson, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Christopher Robert Reed, Elizabeth Schlabach, and Clovis E. Semmes.

The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism

The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism
Author: Anne Meis Knupfer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2023-02-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252054849

Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theater, music, and intellectualism, from 1930 to 1955. Anne Meis Knupfer's The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism demonstrates the complexity of black women's many vital contributions to this unique cultural flowering. The book examines various groups of black female activists, including writers and actresses, social workers, artists, school teachers, and women's club members to document the impact of social class, gender, nativity, educational attainment, and professional affiliations on their activism. Together, these women worked to sponsor black history and literature, to protest overcrowded schools, and to act as a force for improved South Side housing and employment opportunities. Knupfer also reveals the crucial role these women played in founding and sustaining black cultural institutions, such as the first African American art museum in the country; the first African American library in Chicago; and various African American literary journals and newspapers. As a point of contrast, Knupfer also examines the overlooked activism of working-class and poor women in the Ida B. Wells and Altgeld Gardens housing projects.

Stamped from the Beginning

Stamped from the Beginning
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1568584644

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.

The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader

The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader
Author: Shawn Anthony Christian
Publisher: Studies in Print Culture and t
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781625342010

Introduction. The New Negro is reading -- Creating critical frameworks: three models for the New Negro Reader -- In search of Black writers (and readers): Crisis's and Opportunity's literary contests -- Beyond the New Negro: artistry, audience, and the Harlem Renaissance literary anthology -- Pedagogy for critical readership: James Weldon Johnson's English 123 -- Epilogue. On African American writers and readers

The Making of the New Negro

The Making of the New Negro
Author: Anna Pochmara
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9089643192

The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, which for many decades did not attract a lot of scholarly attention, until, in the 1990s, many scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was. Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and on writers who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significance for the movement, such as Wallace Thurman. Its perspective combines gender, sexuality, and race studies with a thorough literary analysis and historicist investigation, an approach that has not been extensively applied to analyze the New Negro Renaissance.

Rhapsodies in Black

Rhapsodies in Black
Author: Richard J. Powell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1997
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520212633

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 19/6 - 17/8 1997.

The New Negro

The New Negro
Author: Alain Locke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1925
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

The Harlem Renaissance in the American West
Author: Cary D Wintz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-05-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136649107

The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in the Harlem Renaissance between 1914 and 1940, have been overlooked and neglected as locations of scholarship and research. Harlem Renaissance in the West: The New Negro's Western Experience will change the way students and scholars of the Harlem Renaissance view the efforts of artists, musicians, playwrights, club owners, and various other players in African American communities all over the American West to participate fully in the cultural renaissance that took hold during that time.

Editing the Harlem Renaissance

Editing the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Joshua M. Murray
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1949979563

In his introduction to the foundational 1925 text The New Negro, Alain Locke described the “Old Negro” as “a creature of moral debate and historical controversy,” necessitating a metamorphosis into a literary art that embraced modernism and left sentimentalism behind. This was the underlying theoretical background that contributed to the flowering of African American culture and art that would come to be called the Harlem Renaissance. While the popular period has received much scholarly attention, the significance of editors and editing in the Harlem Renaissance remains woefully understudied. Editing the Harlem Renaissance foregrounds an in-depth, exhaustive approach to relevant editing and editorial issues, exploring not only those figures of the Harlem Renaissance who edited in professional capacities, but also those authors who employed editorial practices during the writing process and those texts that have been discovered and/or edited by others in the decades following the Harlem Renaissance. Editing the Harlem Renaissance considers developmental editing, textual self-fashioning, textual editing, documentary editing, and bibliography. Chapters utilize methodologies of authorial intention, copy-text, manuscript transcription, critical edition building, and anthology creation. Together, these chapters provide readers with a new way of viewing the artistic production of one of the United States’ most important literary movements.