COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is an interdisciplinary course in the Era of the Harlem Renaissance. The course is crosslisted as both history and African American Studies. Fundamentally it is a history course that has been augmented to include literature, film, and other aspects of culture. The course will examine the impact of the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke and Marcus Garvey, and the impact of World War I and the First Great Migration on the subsequent emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. We will also view several videos on Du Bois, Garvey, the Harlem Renaissance, women writers of the Harlem Renaissance, and the music of the Harlem Renaissance era. There will be a midterm and final paper.
REQUIRED READINGS
David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
William M. Tuttle, Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was In Vogue
David Levering Lewis, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
Langston Hughes, editor, The Langston Hughes Reader
IN ADDITION, students will select one novel or collection of poems from among the following and write a paper on it.
Arna Bontemps, God Sends Sunday
Nella Larsen, Quicksand
Nella Larsen, Passing
Jessie Fausett, There Is Confusion
Jessie Fausett, Plum Bun
Jean Toomer, Cane
Countee Cullen, Color
Claude McKay, Harlem Shadows, Home to Harlem
Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry
Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching
God, Jonah's Vince Gourd
Monday, Dec. 23 David Levering Lewis, Du Bois,
see website www.maafa.org
Download photographs for discussion in class on Jan 2
If you are a faster reader, finish Du Bois and start Tuttle
Thurs, Jan. 2, 2003 finish Du Bois, focus on Chapters 14-19
Fri, Jan 3 Tuttle, Race Riot: Chicago in Red Summer of 1919
Mon, Jan 6, 2003 David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was In Vogue
Tues, Jan 7 finish When Harlem Was In Vogue
Wed, Jan 8 Lewis, Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
Thurs, Jan 9 continue Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
Mon, Jan 13 Hughes, Langston Hughes Reader
Tues, Jan 14 continue Langston Hughes Reader
Wed, Jan 15 to be assigned
Thurs, Jan 16 Final paper due
Lectures
Booker
T. Washington