English 282 - The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance
Spring
2022
01
4.00
Daphne M. Lamothe
W F 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Smith College
ENG-282-01-202203
Seelye 301
dlamothe@smith.edu
ENG 282-01, AFR 245-01
Offered as AFR 245 and ENG 282. A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movements in Afican-American history. This class focuses on developments in politics, and civil rights (NAACP, Urban League, UNIA), creative arts (poetry, prose, painting, sculpture) and urban sociology (modernity, the rise of cities). Writers include Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen among others. Enrollment limited to 40.