Chapter 4 - The Reaction "against" Modernism: The Harlem Renaissance & Its Legacy

Thursday, October 17

• Claude McKay, "The Tropics of New York," "If We Must Die," "The Harlem Dancer," headnote to McKay (all in N)
• To help with "If We Must Die," read about the 1921 Oklahoma City race riots
• Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident" (both in N)
• "sonnet" [again] (W)
• Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Morning After," "Theme for English B" (all in N)
• Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Boy Died in My Alley" (N)
• Imamu Amiri Baraka, "Incident" (N) and bio (P258-59)
• Michael Harper, "American History" (N)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, biographical note (B), "An Ante-Bellum Sermon" (B), "Sympathy" (B)

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