ENGL 417B - Harlem in Vogue

Fall (3) Pinson, Weiss

Exploration of the 1920s movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the ways race, gender/sexuality, and class informed the artists’ construction of identity. Writings by Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Toomer, among others; some attention to visual art and music. (Cross listed with AFST 417.)