EN266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Michael Franti, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer
Document Summary
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world . Wanted to express oral and improvisatory traditions of black culture in writing. Important essay: the negro artist and the racial mountain . Considers the challenges of the serious black artist who would produce a racial art . Time known as the new negro movement . Same era as gatsby, roaring 20"s, jazz age. Moving north en masse from the south to escape racism, poverty, violence, lack of opportunity. Black culture began ti flourish: music, dance, poetry, jazz, etc. Gradually harlem became the social and political centre of. Domestic help: often directed at a specific audience. Between 1525-1866 about 12. 5 million africans were shipped to the new world. 1. 07 million survived the dreaded middle passage. Among slaves 16-20, about 83% of males and 89% of females were field hands, rest were domestic servants, craftspeople and managers. Started with tobacco and moved into cotton plantations.
