AAAS 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Boll Weevil, Josephine Baker, North Premier
16 Sep 2016
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Notes 7-19-16
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
12:32 PM
Life for black women in the 20s and 30s
-Flappers: Sexual freedoms, abortions, short skirts, dances like the Charleston (France Josephine Baker)
and jazz
-Migration to cities: jobs, from South to North
-Dissolution of kinship networks
-Move away from churches- tension between blues and church music
-West Indians/ Caribbean
-1919 women's suffrage, Black women can only vote depending on where they live
Freedom means:
-Sexual freedom/love?- getting away from patriarchy, slavery, respectability
-Domestic Violence:
-Extramarital relationships
- Sex
- Queer relationships
- Dark humor/ tongue in cheek
-Travel
● Access?
● *Performance -> women
● Sailing
● WWI/ soldiering
● *Fellowships and writers grants available to poc -> Rosenwald/ mentorship/ patronage
○ Osgood- Mason
1. Great Migration
1. Rural -> Urban, South -> North
1. Broader tensions
2. Opportunities open in the North
3. High point begins in 1910
2. Reasons for Departure
1. Lynchings/ racist violence
2. Sharecropping conditions
1. Cotton Prices go down
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