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Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (1928)

Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (1928). The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem as white neighbourhood  ‘Great Migration’ and black movement to Northern cities ‘New Negro Movement’, 1920s and 30s Racial pride Progressivist /socialist politics

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Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (1928)

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  1. Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (1928)

  2. The Harlem Renaissance • Harlem as white neighbourhood  ‘Great Migration’ and black movement to Northern cities • ‘New Negro Movement’, 1920s and 30s • Racial pride • Progressivist/socialist politics • Cross cultural (literature, art, music, theatre, intellectual life) • Black gentility v. Africanist primitivism

  3. Archibald Motley, The Jockey Club (1929)

  4. Archibald Motley, Saturday Night (1935)

  5. William H. Johnson, Harlem Street (c.1939)

  6. Harlem as refuge • The ‘race capital’ • Movement away from a Southern past • Publishing and black consumers: The Crisis • Intellectual and artistic value based on self-determined criteria

  7. Harlem as ghetto • Betrayal of community/family • Space to be inhabited but not claimed • Responsibilities of black culture? • W.E.B. Du Bois on Home to Harlem: • For the most part [it] nauseates me, and after the dirtier parts of its filth I feel like taking a bath.... He has used every art and emphasis to paint drunkenness, fighting, lascivious sexual promiscuity and utter absence of restraint in as bold and as bright colors as he can.

  8. Aaron Douglas, Song of the Towers (1934)

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