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Please find attached the documents you worked on in groups regarding three different negative sides constituting obstacles/hindrances to the "booming" aspect of the period (1919-1937). Each file is followed by a set of questions that are supposed to help you understand the texts.
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Josephine Baker will undoubtedly remain one of the prominent figures who contributed to popularize black culture in a period when African Americans were discriminated against and still disregarded by the white American society.
The short Youtube video below features the talented stage performer in the 1920s, a decade known as the "Jazz Age". The extract from her dancing show starts from 00:16.
Dear students,
Please find attached the Word document which includes the group work you did in class about a few different fields of creation concerned by a rise in popularity for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance.
In short, the document counts a set of three questions for each document, namely:
- a poem by Langston Hughes entitled "I, too, sing America"
- an extract from a chapter taken from Their Eyes Were Watching God by novelist Zora Neale Hurston
- a few portraits taken by photographer James Van Der Zee
- one of Aaron Douglas's paintings, entitled "Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction"
- two short texts dealing with actor Paul Robeson and stage performer Josephine Baker
The GIF below illustrates Josephine Baker, famous for her clowning, dancing and other sorts of stage performances.