Rebecca Meacham --UW-Green Bay -- "'Free Within Ourselves': Art and Activism in the Harlem Renaissance” -- Thurs., July 22nd, 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Session Description, Rebecca Meacham bio and contact information

 

Introduction to Five Assigned Readings

Five readings include: 1) Alain Locke, “The New Negro,” from his anthology The New Negro (1925) 2) Zora Neale Hurston, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928) 3) Countee Cullen, “Heritage,” from Color (1925) 4) George Schuyler, “Negro Art Hokum” Nation 122 (June 16, 1926). 5) Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” Nation 123 (June 23, 1926)

Alain Locke, “The New Negro,”

 

Zora Neale Hurston, “How it Feels to Be Colored Me”

 

Countee Cullen, “Heritage,” (poem) from Color

 

George Schuyler, “Negro Art Hokum”

 

Langston Hughes (in response to Schulyer), “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”