WRITERS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (REMOTE)

The Harlem Renaissance stands out among American artistic and cultural movements because of the collective power of the voices depicting the African American experience; it also set the stage for the Civil Rights movement that would follow on its heels. In this course, we’ll read selections from The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (ed. David Levering Lewis) and think deeply about what W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Nella Larson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes had to say about life in New York City in the 1920s. Along the way, we’ll discuss where we are as a country today.

Read: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, edited by David Levering Lewis