GENG 260 1st Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I Ethnic Notions Notes II James Weldon Johnson and Ida B Wells Outline of Current Lecture I The Harlem Renaissance Current Lecture I The Harlem Renaissance Is the Ex Colored Man a tragic mulatto Reasons you could say es He must choose Almost leaning to one side even though he says he is not an unreliable narrator Reasons why he s not Is he dead No Is there an Oedipal drama No He chooses not to be in either world He didn t feel shame for his color but ashamed of white treatment of color He was scared The Harlem Renaissance or The New Negro Movement Fed by the Great Migration Establishment of primarily Northern city centers as sites of black artistic production When 1917 1935 Where New York Harlem Chicago Detroit What A commitment to uplifting race through Music Jazz and Blues Writing poetry fiction drama essays Visual and performing arts These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute The New Negro Outer and Inner objectives Outer Equal rights The Negro mind reaches out as yet to nothing but American wants American Ideas Inner An attempt to repair a damaged group psychology and reshape a warped social perspective America Is this poem celebrating or critiquing America Shakespearean Sonnet Iambic Pentameter 14 lines long 3 quatrains and a couplet or an octave and a sestet Volta turning point Rhyme Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute