By Genevieve Fabre, Michel Feith
ISBN-10: 0253214254
ISBN-13: 9780253214256
ISBN-10: 0253328861
ISBN-13: 9780253328861
The Harlem Renaissance is rightly thought of to be a second of artistic exuberance and unparalleled explosion. this present day, there's a renewed curiosity during this circulate, calling for a re-examination and a more in-depth scrutiny of the period and of files that experience just recently turn into to be had. 'Temples for the next day" reconsiders the interval - among international wars - which proven the intuitions of W. E. B. DuBois at the "colour line" and gave delivery to the "American dilemma," later evoked by means of Gunnar Myrdal. Issuing from a iteration bearing new hopes and aspirations, a brand new imaginative and prescient takes shape and develops round the thought of the recent Negro, with a objective: to recreate an African American identification and declare its valid position within the center of the state. in fact, this circulate organised right into a impressive institutional community, which was once to stay the imaginative and prescient of an elite, yet which gave delivery to tensions and alterations. This assortment makes an attempt to evaluate Harlem's position as a "Black Mecca", as "site of intimate functionality" of African American lifestyles, and as point of interest within the production of a diasporic id in discussion with the Caribbean and French-speaking components. Essays deal with the advanced interweaving of Primitivism and Modernism, of folks tradition and elitist aspirations in several inventive media, in an effort to defining the interplay among track, visible arts, and literature. additionally integrated are recognized Renaissance intellectuals and writers. even supposing they'd diverse conceptions of the position of the African American artist in a racially segregated society, such a lot individuals within the New Negro flow shared a wish to convey a brand new assertiveness by way of literary construction and indentity-building.
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If they are not, it doesn’t matter. We know we are beautiful. And 32 RACIAL DOUBT AND RACIAL SHAME IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, their displeasure doesn’t matter either. 1 The younger artists—men and women such as Hughes, Counte´e Cullen, Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph Fisher, and Nella Larsen— seemed to possess the mixture of courage and confidence that Hughes’s essay identifies as the proper spirit of the age.
William MacDougall of Harvard, for example, in his Introduction to Social Psychology (1908) and, more importantly, his Lowell Lectures that became Is America Safe for Democracy? (1921), warned of the grave perils of race intermingling. A similar warning came from Charles B. Davenport, who, harping on ambitiousness combined with intellectual incompetence, noted how “one often sees in mulattos an ambition and push combined with intellectual inadequacy which makes the unhappy hybrid dissatisfied with his lot and a nuisance to others” (Gossett 379).
Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 classic The Great Gatsby, where Tom Buchanan “broke out violently” 36 RACIAL DOUBT AND RACIAL SHAME IN THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE at one point that “Civilization’s going to pieces. . Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard? . Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be utterly submerged. ” 13 Other characters make fun of Buchanan, as does Fitzgerald himself; but one wonders how many black people in the 1920s in New York, and anywhere else for that matter, could find a joke in his ignorant rumblings.
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