The Atlanta Exposition
Booker T. Washington-"cast down your buckets where they are"-for friendship of races, accommodating-blacks will work themselves up through labor and hard work, vocational education
Lift Every Voice and Sing
James Weldon Johnson-dark past emerges into a new day-reliance on God, we belong here
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B.
Du Bois-the "veil" (a barrier and opportunity)-argues against Washington-the Sorrow Songs (distinctively black, application to a broader audience)-double consciousness
Criteria of Negro Art
W.E.B. Du Bois-"Beauty" and "Truth and Right"-"all Art is propaganda and ever must be"
The Negro-Art Hokum
George Samuel Schuyler-Negro art does not exist, art is a product of nationality
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes-race to whiteness, white = good-unashamed to be black, racial individuality
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes-a history of the races through rivers-"I" collective black race
I, Too
Langston Hughes-defiant, wry tone-double consciousness
Mulatto
Langston Hughes-mixed race as a political statement-moral argument
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes-blues: bittersweet, melancholy, yet enduring-giving voice to the 'low down' folk
The New Negro
Alain Locke-spiritual coming of age-looking for an understanding and change in mindset-racial geist
Africa for Africans
Marcus Garvey-represents working class
Southern Road
Sterling Brown-"hunh" long death march, exhausting-collective struggle
Ma Rainey
Sterling Brown-represented as a Jesus-like figure, musical evangelist-Ma as a vehicle for the blues to alleviate aches and pains
On Being Young - a Woman - and Colored
Marita Bonner-highly metaphorical, moral persuasion-what it feels like to be dehumanized-Understanding vs. Wisdon
Sweat
Zora Neale Hurston-turning her vulnerability and his own tools against him
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Zora Neale Hurston-blackness is salient in context-double consciousness
