English · Boston College
This course explores the early-twentieth-century period of black artistic production alternately referred to as the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Renaissance. Challenging traditional views of Harlem as the epicenter of the period, we will read Harlem as a particularly prominent geographic site among many no less vibrant and no less significant sites across the country, the hemisphere and the Atlantic. Examining a wide range of artistic genres and mediums, we join these black artists, scholars, and leaders as they interrogate the relationships between art and politics; freedom and equal
