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Page 1: Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992). Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-

Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992)

Page 2: Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992). Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-

Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap

• Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration

• ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-30s

Racial pride Progressive/socialist politics Cross cultural (literature, art, music, theatre)

• Harlem as urban locus of African American life: a “city within a city”

• Black gentility or Africanist primitivism?

Archibald Motley, ‘Saturday Night’ (1935)

Page 3: Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992). Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-

East St. Louis Riots, 1917

Page 4: Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992). Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-

Los Angeles Riots, 1992

Page 5: Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992). Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-

Jazz and Jazz – theme and form