{"id":105,"date":"2026-08-19T23:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/?page_id=105"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:56:47","slug":"the-harlem-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/assignments\/the-harlem-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harlem Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Questions in <strong>BOLD; <\/strong>answers in regular type.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use Times New Roman font, with 1.5 spacing.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Please upload to Brightspace as a PDF or word doc.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read: Alaine Locke, \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/22-the-new-era\/alain-locke-on-the-new-negro-1925\/\"><strong>The New Negro<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d (1925)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is Locke\u2019s definition of \u2018Negro\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the result of \u201cshedding the old chrysalis of the Negro problem\u201d?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What or who are \u201cMammies.\u201d Uncle Toms\u201d and \u201cSambos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen: Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk\"><strong>Strange Fruit<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try to listen to this for the first time with your eyes closed. Listen again while watching Holiday sing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is the subject of Strange Fruit? How do you think this subject played a role in the Great Migration?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read: Alaine Locke, \u201cThe New Negro\u201d (1925)&nbsp; What is Locke\u2019s definition of \u2018Negro\u2019? What is the result of \u201cshedding the old chrysalis of the Negro problem\u201d?&nbsp; What or who are \u201cMammies.\u201d Uncle Toms\u201d and \u201cSambos? Listen: Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol, \u201cStrange Fruit\u201d Try to listen to this for the first time with your eyes&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/assignments\/the-harlem-renaissance\/#more-105\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-105","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/shelby26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}