Harlem Renaissance | Uncovering America

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Keywords
Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Aaron Douglas C. B. Falls Johnson Douglas Black Manhattan God's Trombones The Judgment Day Into Bondage slave trade Atlantic slave trade Fritz Winold Reiss Reiss Untitled Two Figures in an Incline The New Negro Alain Locke James Lesesne Wells Looking Upward Great Migration Richmond Barthe Barthe Head of a Boy The Negro in Art Week Werner Drewes Harlem Beauty Works Progress Administration WPA Archibald John Motley Jr. Motley Portrait of My Grandmother Emily Motley Hale Woodruff Robert Blackburn Sunday Promenade Hale Woodruff Robert Blackburn Woodruff Great Depression James Van Der Zee Van Der Zee Garveyite Family Guarantee Portrait Studio Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA Alpha Phi Alpha Basketball Team fraternity Normas Lewis Lewis Jass lithograph jazz music blues music Alain Locke African Negro Art Federal Art Project FAP Isac Friedlander Friedlander Rhapsody in Black engraving jazz orchestra Alfred Stieglitz Siteglitz Brancusi Exhibition at 291 Pablo Picasso Picasso Head of a Woman Fernande Amedeo Modigliani Modigliani Walker Evans Evans Figure of a Woman Laongo Figure of a Young Woman Pahouin Border of Spanish Guinea Fan Fan Central Africa West Africa
Subjects
History-Social Science The Arts
Grade Levels
Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
Audience
Classroom Teacher / Educator
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Harlem Renaissance | Uncovering America

How do visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance explore black identity and political empowerment? How does visual art of the Harlem Renaissance relate to current-day events and issues? How do migration and displacement influence cultural production?

In suggested activities, students explore connecting ideas among artworks; compare portraits by African American artists and discuss black individuality; examine the work of Aaron Douglas and Pablo Picasso, whose work is inspired by African art; and analyze and compare the poetry of James Weldon Johnson and artwork by Aaron Douglas.
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PBS Learning Media

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