ENGL 3351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: New Negro, Cubism, World War I

• School: University of Houston
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3351
• Professor: Sarah Ehlers

Document Summary

White modernist writers appropriated from other forms in the making of modernism: signature style of cubism owes its origins to african sculpture. Modernism built on the backs of other cultures which were then erased from historical recognition. Great migration 1890s-1920s: 1. 5 million southern african americans moved to cities, consolidation/concentration of communities in urban areas. Cultural developments: 50 new black newspapers and magazines, publishing of black literature. Black people/black culture as a spectacle , form of entertainment for whites - whites who don"t belong in harlem.