Required Readings
Primary Source Readings:
Du Bois, W.E.B. “Criteria for Negro Art.” (The Crisis 1926) Reprinted online at WEB Du Bois. Webdubois.org <http://www.webdubois.org/dbCriteriaNArt.html> Accessed 9/2/22.
Schulyer, George S. “The Negro Art-Hokum.” (1926) Reprinted online at Black Past. Blackpast.org <“The Negro-Art Hokum,” an essay George Schuyler> Accessed 9/2/22.
Hughes, Langston. “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926). Reprinted online at the Poetry Foundation. poetryfoundation.org <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69395/the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain> Accessed 9/2/22.
Locke, Alain. “Negro Youth Speaks” in The New Negro: An Interpretation. Ed. Alain Locke. New York. Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. 47-53. (Accessed via HeinOnline on 9/1/22).
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Art and Such” (1938) Reprinted on line at “‘Art and Such’ A 1938 Essay by Hurston Criticizing the Belief that African-American Art Should Be Political.” Primary Source Sets. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). dp.la <https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/their-eyes-were-watching-god-by-zora-neale-hurston/sources/539> Accessed 9/2/22.
Secondary Source Readings:
Bernard, Emily. “The Renaissance and the Vogue.” The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. George Hutchinson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. pp 28-40. (Accessed online at Cambridge Collection Online on 9/1/22.)
Hutchinson, George. “Introduction.” The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. George Hutchinson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. pp. 1-10. (Accessed online at Cambridge Collection Online on 9/1/22.)
Jackson, Lawrence. “‘The Aftermath’: The Reputation of the Harlem Renaissance Twenty Years Later.” The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. Ed. George Hutchinson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. pp, 239-253. (Accessed online at Cambridge Collection Online on 9/1/22.)
Optional Readings:
Caroll, Anne E. “Getting the Full Picture: Teaching the Literature and the Art of the Harlem Renaissance.” New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender and Literary Discourse. Eds. Australia Tarver and Paula C. Barnes. Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2006. 269-288 (Accessed via Proquest 9/1/22).
Locke, Alain. “The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts” in The New Negro: An Interpretation. Ed. Alain Locke. New York. Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. pp. 254-267. (Accessed via HeinOnline on 9/1/22).
Locke, Alain. “Who and What is the Negro?” (Opportunity 1942) Reprinted in The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. Ed. Leonard Harris. Philadelphia: Temple UP. pp207-228.
Wall, Cheryl A. “Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays: Art and Such.” S&F Online. The Scholar and the Feminist. Jumpin’ at the Sun: Reassessing the Life and Work of Zora Neale Hurston. 3.2 (Winter 2005) The Barnard Center for Research on Women. Barnard College. barnard.edu/sfonline <https://sfonline.barnard.edu/hurston/printcwa.htm> Accessed 9/2/22.