READING ASSIGNMENTS

Underlined texts are hyperlinks which you must click on as part of the homework assignment.  You are expected to be responsible for hyperlinked material; hyperlinked material will appear on the final exam, even if we have not discussed it in class.

Monday: Introductions; Discussion of "race," "culture" and "art." Video: I Remember Harlem.  11:00  Library Tutorial with Krystyna Mrozek.  This is a required element of the class, regardless of whether or not you have had a library tour already.

Tuesday: Harlem as Geography and State of Mind:  Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train;"   Listen to songs from Sissle and Blake's Shuffle Along,  the first Broadway show with an all-black cast.  These selections were recorded between 1919 and 1921:

Bandana Days and I'm Just Wild about Harry, In Honeysuckle Time, Love Will Find a Way, Bandana Days, Daddy Won't You Please Come Home, Baltimore Buzz and In Honeysuckle Time, Gypsy Blues, I'm Craving for that Kind of Love, The Flight,  Mirandy, How Ya' Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm, On Patrol in No-Man's Land, Baltimore Buzz

In Watson, "The New Negro Movement is Born" 1-61; in Huggins, The Urban Setting:  45-98 including "Harlem Directory," Locke, "The New Negro" 47-56; Johnson, from "Black Manhattan" and "My City" 56-72;  Thurman, "Editorial," 72;  Fisher, "The Caucasian Storms Harlem" 74-82;  Hughes, 90-98; Cunard, "Harlem Reviewed" 122-132); Audio selections from "Struttin' and Strivin’" (in class); in Classic Fiction, Fisher, "An Introduction to Contemporary Harlemese, Expurgated and Abridged"  Video, From These Roots.  

Wednesday:  Off to read and listen to these music selections:  

• Cotton Club Stomp, Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
• Blues Ain't Nothing Else But!, Ida Cox
• Charleston, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
• Harlem Fuss, Fats Waller and His Orchestra

Thursday:   History, Culture, and Civil Rights: From Souls of Black Folk, "The Forethought" and Chapters I, III, IV, VI, XI, XIII, XIV; "Political Context" pages 167-186.  In Huggins, "Race Pride" 42; "African Diary" and "On Being Black" 207-215 and Johnson, "Fifty Years" 222 and "Brothers" 352.  In packet, McDougald, "The Double Task:  The Struggle of Negro Women for Race and Sex Emancipation."  Video, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices". Listen to these musical selections:

• Sounds of Africa, Eubie Blake
• Senagalese Stomp, Savoy Bearcats
• The Harlem Strut, James P. Johnson

Friday:  Art or Propaganda? In Huggins, Johnson, "Preface to the Book of American Negro Poetry" and "O Black and Unknown Bards" 281-304; Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" and "Hurt" 305-309; Schuyler, "The Negro-Art Hokum" 309-311; Locke, "Art or Propaganda" 312-313; Garvey "Africa for the Africans" and "The Future as I See It" 35-42; Video: Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood.

Listen to an excerpt from a letter from Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes

Oral presentation on James Weldon Johnson.