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AAH Final Exam 2024 Questions & Answers
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AAH Final Exam 2024 Questions &Answers
Harlem Renaissance - ANSWERS-The name given to the cultural, social and artistic explosion that took
place in Harlem between the end of WWI and the middle of the 1930s
-drew black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets and scholars
-many had come from the South, fleeing its oppressive caste system in order to find a place where they
could freely express their talents
If We must die - ANSWERS-has a universal message for people facing destruction and oppression
-main themes: honor, death, warfare, masculinity
-particularly poignant for black soldiers
What is Black Art ~ George Schuyler - ANSWERS-argues against the specificity of AA art
-black Americans had the same general experiences as white Americans and their art should not be
differentiated or classified as such
-black artists in America are equally as diverse as white artists; to expect a uniform style or subject
matter was just as insulting as the stereotypes that were being rejected
-Schuyler often employed satire for its social and political power as a polemical, subversive and
controversial genre fit for debating the representation of blacks in literature and reflecting on the
achievement of the Renaissance
- it was also a reaction to propaganda demands and as a self-conscious assertion of aesthetic freedom
How it feels to be colored me - Zora Neale Hurston - ANSWERS-exploration of hurston's identity,
biographical essay
-sends a message of strength, empowerment and pride
-colored bags as a metaphor; uses the metaphor to describe what people are like: bags full of hopes,
desires, disappointment and the stuff of life
-if you were to dump these bags out, everyone would be more or less the same, regardless of the color
of their skin/bag
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