The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong
Teaching Hard History
English - February 17, 2022 21:36 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsCourses Education History american ela english hasan history jeffries race splc war arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
During the Harlem Renaissance, more Black artists than ever before were asking key questions about the role of art in society. Oftentimes the Harlem Renaissance is misconstrued as a discrete moment in American history–not as the next iteration of a thriving Black artistic tradition that it was. Literature scholar Julie Buckner Armstrong urges educators to look deeper into the texts left to us by these artists and come to a fuller understanding of this stage in a long chronology of Black artistic expression.
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