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Harlem Renaissance
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Curriculum Lessons
Josephine Baker and Montmartre's Black Expatriate Scene
Unit 4
Serving and Sacrificing: Black Military Service from Reconstruction to World War II
Unit 4.5
Disenfranchisement, Jim Crow & the Red Summer
Unit 4.5
HBCU to Independence: The African Leaders of Lincoln University
Unit 4.5
Harlem Renaissance to Negritude: The Atlantic Circuit
Unit 5
The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity
Unit 6
Beyond the Salon: Présence Africaine and the 1956 Congress
Unit 6.5
The Harlem Renaissance: Remaking Black Identity Through Art
Unit 6.5
The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora
Unit 7
The Great Migration: Urban Cultural Transformation
Unit 7
Ideas That Changed the World: The Black Intellectual Tradition
Unit 10
Art as Memory, Resistance and Imagination
Unit 10
Cultural References
Blues
Archibald Motley · Visual Art · 1929
Couple in Raccoon Coats
James VanDerZee · Photography · 1932
Ethiopia
Meta Warrick Fuller · Visual Art · 1921
Harlem Renaissance: Community and Everyday Life
Unknown photographers / Harlem Renaissance archive · Photography · 1930
Into Bondage
Aaron Douglas · Visual Art · 1936
Les Fétiches
Loïs Mailou Jones · Visual Art · 1938
Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp)
Augusta Savage · Visual Art · 1939
The Janitor Who Paints
Palmer Hayden · Visual Art · 1930
The Migration Series
Jacob Lawrence · Visual Art · 1940