Palmer Hayden

The Janitor who Paints (1937)

Week Three

Monday:  Nella Larsen.  In Classic Fiction: Quicksand, entire.  Listen to "Copenhagen" by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra.

Oral presentation on Nella Larsen.  

Tuesday:  Finish Larsen discussion.  In Huggins,  poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson, "The Suppliant" 350, "Old Black Men" 356, and in packet, "Free,"  "Prejudice," Common Dust,"  "Calling Dreams,""Wishes," "Your World,"  "Motherhood," "Smothered Fires," and "The Heart of a Woman."  Listen to Johnson's, "I Want to Die While you Love Me;" in packet, Bonner, "One Boy's Story," "Drab Rambles,"  "Nothing New" "One True Love, "I Passed By" and "On Being Young--a Woman--and Colored."

Oral presentation on Georgia Douglas Johnson.

Wednesday:  Off to read.

Thursday:  Langston Hughes. In Huggins, 90-99; 146-156; 358-359; 417-419. in Classic Fiction, "The Blues I'm Playing" 363-379.  Video: Voices and Visions: Langston Hughes.  To listen to samples of Langston Hughes' poetry, click on the titles:  from "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", "Mother to Son", and "The Weary Blues."  Listen to an excerpt from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain."

Friday: Richard Bruce Nugent. "Smoke, Lilies, and Jade" in Fire!!; Video, "Looking for Langston".

Oral presentation on Richard Bruce Nugent.

 

 

Week Four

Monday: Carl van Vechten. In Huggins, "Comments" 392; Excerpts from Nigger Heaven. Listen to Helene Johnson's "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem."   Second paper due in class.

Oral presentation on Carl van Vechten.

Tuesday:   Zora Neale Hurston:  In Classic Fiction, "Sweat" and "The Gilded Six-Bits" 75-99, in Fire!!, "Color Struck"; Listen to excerpts from Their Eyes Were Watching God  and "How it Feels to be Colored Me;" in packet, "Our Love/Hate Relationship with Zora Neale Hurston" and "An Ex-centric Approach to American Cultural Studies:  The Interesting Case of Zora Neale Hurston as a Non-Canonical Writer."  Listen to the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra's "Down South Camp Meetin'."

Oral Presentation on Zora Neale Hurston.

Wallace Thurman. In Huggins, "Editorial from ‘Harlem’" 72;  in Fire!! "Cordelia the Crude, A Harlem Sketch"; in Classic Fiction, excerpts from Infants of the Spring 381-393.  Listen to Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher."

Oral presentation on Wallace Thurman.

SECOND PAPER DUE AT 6 P.M.

Wednesday: Final Exam starts at 9 A.M.