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To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
Book by Jon Woodson; University Press of Mississippi, 1999
Subjects: African Americans--Intellectual Life, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch--1872-1949--Influence, Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch--1872-1949--Views On Race, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual Life, Harlem Renaissance, Race In Literature, Toomer, Jean--1894-1967--Criticism And Interpretation
...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data...Jon. To make a new race: Gurdjieff, Toomer...interpretation. 2. American literature--Afro-American authors...consciousness, and race consciousness is ridiculed...The thesis presented in the text is that racialism...
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Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West
Book by Sharon L. Jones; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: African American Women In Literature, African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Fauset, Jessie Redmon--Criticism And Interpretation, Harlem Renaissance, Hurston, Zora Neale--Criticism And Interpretation, Race In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, Social Classes In Literature, West, Dorothy--1909---Criticism And Interpretation, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century
...less than create values by which his race is to struggle, live and die (969). The views of Wright and others sug- gest that...bourgeois classes as a means to meditate on power dynamics and relations in American...organization that advanced the black race through the promotion of education...the conven- tion, Fauset commented on the Pan-African Congress and their goals...marry a dark-skinned black man. Vera views passing as a way to enjoy what she sees...encounter between the two to comment on the politics of race class, and gender. Amy learns that...to white patrons with stereotypical views of African Americans. This section...
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Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity
Book by Nathan Grant; University of Missouri Press, 2004
Subjects: African American Men In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Hurston, Zora Neale--Characters--Men, Masculinity In Literature, Men In Literature, Modernism (Literature)--United States, Race In Literature, Toomer, Jean--1894-1967--Cane
...Violence, and Manhood: The Masculine Ideal in Frederick Douglasss The Heroic Slave...Said, Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature, 24; Houston A. Baker, Jr., The Journey...precisely the in uence sexuality and race had on that aspect of the public Douglass...
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Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation
Book by Therman B. O'Daniel; Howard University Press, 1988
Subjects: African Americans In Literature, Fiction, Toomer, Jean--1894-1967--Criticism And Interpretation
...Friends Movement of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1949 , p. 18. See also the philosophical works: Essentials...unpublished ms., ca. 1933 ; and the short stories: "Love on a Train," "Drackman," "Fronts," "New Beach...University, New Orleans, Louisiana, p. 10. See also Georges I. Gurdjieff, Beelzebubs Tales to His Grandson : An Objectively...January 1969 : 3. 6. James Weldon Johnson, "Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist", Harpers Magazine...Seeking, 327-410. See Turner, 1980. J. ESSAYS "Race Problems and Modern Society". In Problems of Civilisation...Gorham Munson". S4N , March-April 1923. "Notations on The Captains Doll" Review-Article . Broom 5 August...Friends Movement of the Phileadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1949. N. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FRIENDS INTELLIGENCER "The...
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Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance
Book by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson; Rutgers University Press, 2007
Subjects: African American Women In Literature, African Americans--Race Identity, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Femininity In Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Icons In Literature, Race In Literature, Racially Mixed People In Literature, Visual Perception In Literature
...visual culture and artistic convention on Larsens fictional scenes. Larsens Orientalism...a productive outlet for her aesthetic views, had that option been open to her/ But...by her reluctance to emulate the new race-woman ideal or its ostensible opposite...destructive effects of the white male gaze on the eroticized black female subject...gaze disconcerts Irene, it is Irene who views Clare as an object. With the gaze now...mesmerizing beauty, and freedom from race, gender, and class restrictions.46 Irenes...Along with exposing the constraints on the persona of the race woman, Pass- ing presents moments of...
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Sharon L. Jones. Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West
Journal article by Martha J. Cutter; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West (Book)
...Bildungsroman and the Kunstlerroman to illuminate the role race, class, and gender play in the source and development of their art. But who...particular "triumvirate in the canon of African American literature." Nella Larsen gets barely a mention, despite the...
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To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
Journal article by C. K. Doreski; African American Review, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance (Book)--Reviews
...American historian to review To Make a New Race properly. This is but an appreciation...reduced versions of Beelzbubs Tales." And in this audacious, sometimes frustrating...names, dates, times) but from the literature itself. Woodsons most controversial...
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Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Journal article by Paula T. Connolly; MELUS, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Book)--Book reviews
...of race--to the reception and writing of literature by African Americans. Her attention to...of Effie Lee Newsomes childrens column in the Crisis, to the work of schoolteacher...the childrens texts that aimed to develop race activists." The ability of African American...
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African American Women's Short Stories in the Harlem Renaissance: Bridging a Tradition
Journal article by Judith Musser; MELUS, Vol. 23, 1998
Subjects: African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African American women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Harlem Renaissance--History, Minority authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Opportunity (Periodical)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Crisis (Periodical)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...collectively in the group or abstractly in the race. The emphasis in these short stories is clearly on women, an emphasis that is characteristic...Cullens poems and dramas are usually based on African American women who have manipulated...present characters who remain loyal to their race. For example, in Iola Leroy, the beautiful...most emphatically advises against race intermarriage in America ... because of...physical reasons" (qtd. in Detweiler 145). On the other hand, writers, like Claude McKay...
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The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader
Journal article by Nibir K. Ghosh; MELUS, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader (Book)--Book reviews
...have to contend with the complexities of racial dilemmas. In a nation constantly at loggerheads with the shadows and...bringing together for readers and scholars of African American literature the versatile creative renderings, in diverse genres, of...
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The Harlem Renaissance in the Twenties Produced a Wealth of Black Talent. but What Was Its Legacy and Who Did It Really Benefit?
Magazine article by Andrea Stuart; New Statesman, Vol. 126, June 27, 1997
Subjects: African American art--African influences, African American artists--Political activity, Arts and society--Analysis, Harlem Renaissance--Appreciation
...Renaissance was the belief that black cultural achievement in the "high" arts would socially and spiritually uplift the race. Manifestly this has not happened. Where the legacy of the...
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Nella Larsen : Voice of the Harlem Renaissance
Magazine article by Charles R. Larson; World and I, Vol. 15, February 2000
Subjects: African American women authors--Behavior, African American women writers--Behavior, Harlem Renaissance, Literature, Women novelists--Criticism and interpretation
...subject of Larsens own unique fiction is race in America, race used as a weapon. Helga Crane in Quicksand finds herself trapped between the races for much...Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen, is professor of literature at American University.
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Harlem Renaissance - Takes Two: After Years of Neglect, Will Empowerment Zones Allow Harlem to Thrive Once Again?
Magazine article by Eric L. Smith; Black Enterprise, Vol. 27, February 1997
Subjects: Federal aid to community development--Economic aspects, Harlem, New York, New York--Economic aspects, New York Empowerment Zone--Management
...have announced theyre opening major retail outlets in this neighborhood that became one of six federally funded...Harlem residents spend approximately $205 million a year on apparel, and $33.6 million on books, mostly outside of their own community. Grid Properties...
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Honoring the Contributions of African Americans to Tap Dance and Music, the New Jersey Tap Ensemble Presented the Ellington Legacy and the Harlem Renaissance in November
Magazine article; Dance Magazine, Vol. 80, December 2006
Subjects: African American dancers--Achievements and awards
...Ensemble Presented the Ellington Legacy and the Harlem Renaissance in November. Honoring the contributions of African Americans...ENSEMBLE presented The Ellington Legacy and the Harlem Renaissance in November. Honoree MERCEDES ELLINGTON, choreographer and granddaughter...
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'Race in the College Classroom'
Magazine article by Kendra Hamilton; Black Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 19, March 14, 2002
Subjects: Campuses, Colleges & universities, Curricula, Discrimination, Educators, Higher education, Minority & ethnic groups, Race relations, Racism
Race in the College Classroom by Kendra Hamilton Dealing with conflict in...during "Comparative and Collaborative Approaches to Teaching Multiethnic Literatures," a panel at the recent Modern Languages Association conference, neatly...
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Harlem Renaissance Reached around the World
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, April 19, 1998
...Club. With the new freedoms between the world wars, the arts exploded for black Americans with an energy never seen before - in all the arts, including music, dance, film, photography, painting and sculpture. Now, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washingtonians...
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Before There Was Harlem; U Street Celebrates Its History and Rebirth
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 13, 2009
Subjects: Harlem renaissance, Hughes, Langston, Singers
...WASHINGTON TIMES Tell all my mourners To mourn in red - Cause there aint no sense In my...Theatre is a nonprofit performing-arts venue on U Street managed by the U Street Theatre...vaudeville theater and movie house, the Jewel on U has reopened as a cultural crossroads...
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Harlem Silhouettes; Inflated Survey Focuses on Muralist of Black History
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 10, 2008
Subjects: Art, Modern--Surveys, Douglas, Aaron, Harlem renaissance--Surveys, Modern art--Surveys, Modernism (Art)--Surveys
...of the Harlem Renaissance, are studies in contradictions.They celebrate black culture...him to create murals for a new library on the campus. The exhibit includes a gouache...retirement in 1966. The exhibit concentrates on Mr. Douglas early career, but includes...
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Lessons from a Tight Race in Virginia
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 6, 1999
Subjects: Virginia
...of a healthy Woods victory. In another race, Democrat Jim Mitchell challenged...the gun issue. Mr. Mitchells literature and tactics were funded heavily...emotional reaction, capitalize on the Littleton legacy and hang...Responsible and moral positions on the Second Amendment and abortion...
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Europe in War and after, Race in America
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 14, 2002
Europe in war and after, race in America Byline: Stephanie Deutsch...devotes its Garrigue Books imprint to Czech literature in translation. Living Parallel by Alexandr...identifies himself as the only "Negro" on the faculty ("I am aware that Negro is...enriched and grow. But the subject is race. Here, sadly, as often in life, the issue...
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Harlem Renaissance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARLEM RENAISSANCE term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. During the mass migration of African Americans from...
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Harlem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was established by Peter Stuyvesant in 1658. To the W of Harlem, near the present...Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. In East Harlem, a largely Italian neighborhood...is generally considered the heart of Harlem; Lenox Ave., once internationally known...
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Spanish American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...local color. Representative of this indigenista literature are Raza de bronce bronze race (1919) by the Bolivian Alcides Arguedas , El...and the forces of nature, whether on the plains, in the tropics, or in the cities, was a challenging...
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Brazilian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Brazilian writers, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis , were in the same realist vein. His novels and short stories are noted...Graca Aranha, appeared in the same year, and the childrens literature of Jose Bento Monteiro Lobato also became popular. The strong...1969); D. T. Haberly, Three Sad Races (1983); D. Brookshaw, Race and Color in Brazilian Literature (1986); I. Stern, ed...
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Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...After the retirement of Winfield Scott in Nov., 1861, McClellan was for a few months...Body (1928). The quantity of historical literature on the Civil War is enormous, and there...North and South (2001); D. W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American...
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