2012-2013 Academic Catalog

Apr 29, 2024

2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 045 - Reconsidering the Harlem Renaissance

Type of Course: First-Year Seminar

This first-year seminar is designed to explore the history of African American art and literature during and preceding the period commonly identified as the Harlem Renaissance. Rather than examine the Harlem Renaissance uncritically, this course is designed to reinterpret the Harlem Renaissance in a way that takes into consideration the broader movement of black activitism and creative works, reaching back to the 1880s and 1890s, that represent more accurately, perhaps, a “renaissance” of black creative achievement. Thus, students will consider the broader, more inclusive designation, “New Negro Movement,” as they examine the history of African American arts and letters both in New York and beyond.