Topic 10

Topic 1: American Literature After The Civil War

Topic 2: W.E.B. Du Bois And Effective Arguments

Topic 3: Logical Fallacies And The Progressive Era

Topic 4: Writing An Argumentative Essay

Topic 5: Modernism (Part 1)

Topic 6: Modernism (Part 2)

Topic 7: Identifying The Speaker In Modernist Poetry

Topic 8: The Lost Generation

Topic 9: The Southern Renaissance

Topic 10: The Harlem Renaissance

Topic 11: Postmodernism

Topic 12: Civil Rights And Multicultural America

1. What was the Great Migration?

To escape racial violence, pursue economic and educational opportunities, and obtain freedom from the oppression of Jim Crow.

2. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans

3. What was The New Negro as a representative figure of the time?

A more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.

4. How does the theme of Langston Hughes’s The Negro Speaks of Rivers speak to his declared goal as a writer?

Celebrate the strength of Black heritage and perseverance.

5. How did Langston Hughes disagree with Zora Neal Hurstons beliefs?

He advocated for new social and political structures that were desegregated