THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Explain the idea of “two-ness” and the challenge it presents for Du Bois
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Du Boise was born in Louisville, Ky., the son of Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr., who was also a writer and educator. Du Boise died of tuberculosis in 1919.
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Du Boise notes that Fauset’s work as a key player of the Harlem Renaissance was “probably unequaled” and he argues that “there is no telling what she would have done had she been a man.”
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He discusses the separateness between races, the strain that black people must bear because of their inability to rise to full self-consciousness due to “contradictory aims” and “unreconciled ideals, “
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Claude McKay’s poetry was one of the great forces in bringing about what is often called the ‘Negro Literary Renaissance.” Considered one of the most prolific writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
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