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Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992)
Harlem Renaissance – a re-cap
• Influx of Southern blacks to Northern cities during Great Migration
• ‘New Negro Movement’: 1920s-30s
Racial pride Progressive/socialist politics Cross cultural (literature, art, music, theatre)
• Harlem as urban locus of African American life: a “city within a city”
• Black gentility or Africanist primitivism?
Archibald Motley, ‘Saturday Night’ (1935)
East St. Louis Riots, 1917
Los Angeles Riots, 1992
Jazz and Jazz – theme and form