History 2301E Lecture : America in the Jazz Age
16 Feb 2012
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honest, quiet, remote, serious; demeanor thought to be a problem sometimes. makes a list of 100,000 names who might be radicals, increased to. led raids to search for bombs, communism. people arrested didn t get a trial, illegal. referred to as those anarchist bastards y the lost generation : young people began to see themselves as a new generation, saw their elders as puritans, uptight, etc, given to a generation of new authors, artists, etc. Cummings, f. scott fitzgerald: many pro-war books were written; it was hard but it made men out of them. sense of the soldier as the tragic hero: edna st. vincent millay. embodied the liberated women of the 1920s y the harlem renaissance: african american neighbourhood, area the was favoured by black intellectuals. Langston hughes, paul robeson, bessie smith, louis armstrong, believed racial advancement for african americans was not going to happen thought politics.
