Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Black American History #26
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Todd
Langston Hughes is my favorite US poet. I'm not really a big poetry fan, probably because outside of Hughes, most of the stuff I've read is stuff forced upon me in school, and you know how drab most of that is. But his works just feel so different. I don't know the exact right word for it, but the wordplay is fantastic, the language doesn't feel pretentious or overly flowery, and the message behind the poems is easy to think about and pick up on. There's just something about his work that I love.
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Langston Hughes is my favorite US poet. I'm not really a big poetry fan, probably because outside of Hughes, most of the stuff I've read is stuff forced upon me in school, and you know how drab most of that is. But his works just feel so different. I don't know the exact right word for it, but the wordplay is fantastic, the language doesn't feel pretentious or overly flowery, and the message behind the poems is easy to think about and pick up on. There's just something about his work that I love.
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William
Library of America has issued a two-volume set of the Harlem Renaissance and one volume of African American Poetry. The also have two volumes of the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and one volume of James Weldon Johnson.
I recommend George Schuyler and his satire -Black No More. - I have been reading his work since the 1960s. Plus, there are other great writings by other black authors.
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Library of America has issued a two-volume set of the Harlem Renaissance and one volume of African American Poetry. The also have two volumes of the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and one volume of James Weldon Johnson.
I recommend George Schuyler and his satire -Black No More. - I have been reading his work since the 1960s. Plus, there are other great writings by other black authors.
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Scapegoat
If it were not for content such as this, there are many people who would not know very much at all about black history in America or the will of racist people who oppressed, tortured and murdered black people unto this very day.
For one like myself who can't sit and read tomes of history as I'd like, your work is greatly appreciated.
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If it were not for content such as this, there are many people who would not know very much at all about black history in America or the will of racist people who oppressed, tortured and murdered black people unto this very day.
For one like myself who can't sit and read tomes of history as I'd like, your work is greatly appreciated.
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Kairyu
Here to say again, this is hands down the best CrashCourse content produced to date. The level of thorough well researched primary source material, the insistence that we look with empathy at the experiences of people in the past, the pace and passion of the delivery, just top notch all around.
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Here to say again, this is hands down the best CrashCourse content produced to date. The level of thorough well researched primary source material, the insistence that we look with empathy at the experiences of people in the past, the pace and passion of the delivery, just top notch all around.
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Jesse
In the previous episodes, you'd think Black American History was all bleak and miserable. In many ways you'd be right, but this episode was your breath of fresh air. Despite our dark past we made ways to make beauty, and culture around it and sense about it.
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In the previous episodes, you'd think Black American History was all bleak and miserable. In many ways you'd be right, but this episode was your breath of fresh air. Despite our dark past we made ways to make beauty, and culture around it and sense about it.
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Scapegoat
As a musician myself, I honor the black Americans with the creation of blues, jazz and rock and roll. As a clear example - without the previous influence of blues and jazz, what would the Beatles, Led Zeppelin or The Who have sounded like?
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As a musician myself, I honor the black Americans with the creation of blues, jazz and rock and roll. As a clear example - without the previous influence of blues and jazz, what would the Beatles, Led Zeppelin or The Who have sounded like?
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EatenByAGrue
I did a semester class on the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the visual arts, and it still felt like I barely scratched the surface. So much beauty was brought into the world in such a short time. It's incredible.
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I did a semester class on the Harlem Renaissance, focusing on the visual arts, and it still felt like I barely scratched the surface. So much beauty was brought into the world in such a short time. It's incredible.
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Joey
This series is the apex of Crash Course, IMHO. So well researched, so well written, so well presented. I can tell that every word is deliberately chosen, and spoken with deep intention. Extraordinary work.
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This series is the apex of Crash Course, IMHO. So well researched, so well written, so well presented. I can tell that every word is deliberately chosen, and spoken with deep intention. Extraordinary work.
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Legolord
Looking at Black American art, they do try to symbolize the term freedom in the way how it is also telling the story of Black life in American society at that time.
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Looking at Black American art, they do try to symbolize the term freedom in the way how it is also telling the story of Black life in American society at that time.
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Jasmine
Am so excited to view where this crash course is going. I look forward going to the shomburg research center for the Eubie Blake for his musical screen play
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Am so excited to view where this crash course is going. I look forward going to the shomburg research center for the Eubie Blake for his musical screen play
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