Harlem is Everywhere, Ep. 3
Art & Literature
Dear Research Network, Colleagues and Friends,
To understand the arts is to understand society. It is through the artistic lens that society sees itself more clearly while also celebrating that which it wants to become. This episode of Harlem is Everywhere explores fashion as a central component of the Harlem Renaissance.
Please see the enclosed episode of Harlem is Everywhere. Episode 3 is entitled, "Art & Literature."
Harlem Is Everywhere
Show Notes
How did the literature of the Harlem Renaissance play a central role in conversations around Black identity in America and abroad? In this episode we’ll learn about publications like Opportunity, The Crisis, and Fire!! which each promoted a unique political and aesthetic perspective on Black life at the time. We’ll learn about Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston before they became household names and explore how collaboration and conversation between artists, writers, and scholars came to define the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance.
Learn more about The Met's exhibition at metmuseum.org/HarlemRenaissance.
Objects featured in this episode: Laura Wheeler Waring’s covers of The Crisis, September 1924 and April 1923: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i... Winold Reiss, Cover of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, February 1925:
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Winold Reiss, Langston Hughes, 1925: https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.72.82 Aaron Douglas, Miss Zora Neale Hurston, 1926: https://customprints.metmuseum.org/de...
Guests: Monica L. Miller, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English and Africana Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University John Keene, poet and novelist
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Great podcast!