Leroi Jones book, 'Blues People: Negro Music in White America' offers insight into jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. ... The White Negro is a 9,000 word essay by Norman Mailer that recorded a number of young white people in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's who liked jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own. The "white Negroes" adopted black clothing styles, black jive language, and black music. ... One of the early figures in the white negro phenomenon was jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow, an American Je...

• Word Count: 530
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The roots of blues music can be traced to Negro spirituals. ... Blues music is very structured in its form. ... During the Second World War, blues migrated to urban communities, as black people moved to major cities seeking work. ... Unlike blues, rap grew out of black urban America. ... In 2011, African Americans were reported to have about 16 times as many gonorrhea cases as their white counterparts. ...

• Word Count: 1900
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• Grade Level: High School

As the only Negro attending a white school he was occasionally exposed to beatings from other students and insults from one of the teachers. ... As Langston later recalls "So I learned early not to hate all white people," "And ever since it has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been." ... Langston was fascinated by black music especially the blues. It seemed to express for him the sadness and pain and capacity to endure that characterized black people of America. ... They remind us with all the unpleasantness there is no shame in ...

• Word Count: 1325
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It was time for the African American people to express their culture. ... Music, poetry, jazz, blues and musical theater were flourishing for the African American in Harlem. ... (Gayle 2) He started to look for a job, however; employers were looking for white people only. ... He felt protection, because his people "The Negroes" surrounded him as he pointed out in his works. ... In addition, he tells to the "white" people, look at all what the Africans has accomplished. ...

• Word Count: 1984
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• Grade Level: High School

The Blues was an African American music played for many years in the south and in way singers were expressing themselves. Through the Blues, L. ... Here in his poem he considers his self as almost a composer of blues music, and plays with the rhymes and the rhythms as a musician. ... For James Baldwin a great writer of the beginning of the twentieth century Langston Hughes is always making "sermons, blues and prayers" (216) at the same time like in the poems Mother to son and The Negro Speaks of Rivers. ... With the same idea of sermons, blues and prayers the poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers st...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: High School

Jazz Age The Jazz Age was the time in history where the soulful ness of the East met the American "white" culture. ... These events help to show the slow acceptance and influence of African American culture on white America. ... A uniquely American art form, jazz traced its birth to a combination of ragtime, marching band music, and the blues. " The spontaneity and excitement of the music produced by black artists 'riffing' on old blues and classical themes found a ready outlet in the New York of the post-war era."... During the Harlem Renaissance the idea of the "New Negro" beca...

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During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American music, theater, art, and politics flourished. ... The Harlem Renaissance brought African-American literature and art to the attention of "White America". ... During the Harlem Renaissance, African-American music (jazz, blues, and swing), theatre, art, and politics prospered and were recognized by the mainstream population of America. ... Out of the Harlem Renaissance, which was also known as the New Negro Movement, developed great American artists. ... This new style of music caught the attention of many white Americans and soon became the most ...

• Word Count: 2498
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• Grade Level: High School

This African-American cultural movement became known as "The New Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance. ... He further believed that his people could not achieve social equality by emulating white ideals, that equality could be achieved only by teaching Black racial pride with an emphasis on an African cultural heritage. ... In Harlem in the 1920's many people, both African-American and white, attended vaudeville shows, dramas, and Broadway plays performed by African-Americans. ... In Harlem, jazz music was extremely popular and influential. ... Jazz was an influential add...

• Word Count: 824
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The movement pushed for black self-assertion against white privilege and supremacy, advocated the term 'Negro' as a word of pride. ... During the early 1920's when Toomer was writing there was much emphasis on becoming a 'New Negro', forging a new identity for ones self through the mediums of literature, art and music. ... It is neither white nor black nor in-between. ... Many African-American writers considered Toomer as a 'race traitor' as he so desperately tried to 'challenge his culture's demand for absolute distinctions between white and bl...

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[these songs] had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." ... (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America) He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. ... If colored people are pleased we are glad. ... Nevertheless, his love of gospel music led to other acclaimed stage efforts, usually mixing words, music, and dance in an atmosphere of improvisation. ...

• Word Count: 2112
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• Grade Level: High School

African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become "The New Negro," term coined in 1925 by sociologist and critic Alain LeRoy Locke. ... In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of African Americans as "something like a spiritual emancipation." ... White gardenias, worn in her hair, became her trademark. ... Langston entered Columbia University and began living in Harlem, at that time an elegant section on the northern end of Manhattan Island that African American people were making their own. ... Hughes's poetry ...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: High School

It began in the early 1920's where African American literature, art, music, and dance began to flourish in Harlem, a neighboorhood in New York City. This African American cultural movement became known as the "The New Negro Movement" and later was called the Harlem Renaissance. ... Black owned magazines and newspapers flourished, freeing African Americans from the influences of the white society. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ... Langston Hughes once said "The ordinary Negro hasn't heard of the Negro Renaissance....

• Word Count: 1369
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New Negro is defined as a person who calls for social order and demands that blacks fight back against racism and segregation in American society. ... This new sense of pride also emerged in the form of literature, music, and theater. ... Many of the experiences described by these black writers, and even some white writers took place in the capital of black America, Harlem, New York. ... Black music became very popular all over the United States and Europe. White People came to Harlem in droves. ...

• Word Count: 2437
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• Grade Level: High School

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by W. ... The movement symbolized the militant ethnic pride of the New Negro, the fervent belief in the beauty and nobility of an African homeland, and the deep cultural cleft between Black and White America. ... This meant he felt that Negro people would have to develop self-sufficiency and no longer rely on seemingly altruistic efforts of other people. ... The book showed both sides of Harlem, helping create a "Negro vogue- that drew thousands of New Yorkers, black and white, to Harlem's exotic a...

• Word Count: 2619
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

White poetry written about the experiences of white people was the only kind of verse most folks had ever heard. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. Hughes did not confine himself to revealing just the cadences of black music to his readers. ... If white people are pleased, we are glad. ...

• Word Count: 1071
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African American females are unique human beings. ... The first African American Woman I want to discuss is Phillis Wheatley born in Gambia, Africa in 1753. ... Her first name was derived from the ship that carried her to America, The Phillis. ... Another source said she was part Chippewa Indian, part African-American, and an orphan. ... Elizabeth Blackwell, the first white American woman physician to receive a medical degree. ...

• Word Count: 2366
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It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehumanized and relegated to the position of non-citizens and often defined as fractions of humans. ... Carter Godwin Woodson to lead the struggle and search for the truth and institutionalize what was then referred to as "Negro History Week". ... Under Woodson's direction and contributions ...

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However, such issues as the relationship between the Harlem Renaissance and mainstream American culture, especially the relationship between African-American literature and white American culture and how white people have influenced the Harlem Renaissance have not been explored into. ... Across the culture spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found a new way to explore the historical experiences of black America. ... From the article The Caucasian storms Harlem written b...

• Word Count: 1512
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Music with different beats was being played like jazz, spirituals, and hymns. ... Black literature, art, music, and theater were recognized and very popular. ... It was the first time that African American literature was taken seriously and attracted so many people. ... Also a lot of his writing expressed how hard black life was, "The Weary Blues" written in 1926. He published an essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," where he introduced to the people black literary identity. ...

• Word Count: 2368
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Langston Hughes was America's Jazz Poet, the chronicler of life in Harlem in the 1920s. ... In 1926 Hughes's first book, The Weary Blues, was published to a chorus of praise from black and white reviewers alike. ... In 1927, he wrote one of his best-known Smith 5 essays, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." ... Afterward, a group of Hughes's closest friends recited on of his best-known poems, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." ... His support for left-wing politics and his sympathy for repressed people made him a popular figure worldwide, and sometimes a controversial o...

• Word Count: 1295
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A few weeks after being fired from The Count Basie Band, Bille became the first African-American woman ever to perform with an all white band led by Artie Shaw. She also became the first African-American to tour with an all white band in the segragated South. ... Artie Shaw faced a lot of pressure by white media to fire Billie and hire a white female artist. ... She performed the song at Cafe Society in 1939, but with fear of how people, (whites) would react to the song. ... Although she was struggling in her personal life, she she was a becoming somewhat of a jazz icon as well as becoming a m...

• Word Count: 2313
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Being me, it will not be white. ... That's American. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ...

• Word Count: 1896
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Being me, it will not be white. ... That's American. ... Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. ... He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways that reflected their actual culture, including both their suffering and their love of music, laughter, and language itself. ... Thus a vitality is shown in him and his people which is not present in the hearts of the other students, simply because they are white and not in need of it. ...

• Word Count: 1930
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• Grade Level: High School

This man's main mission was to help enlighten people on the racial issues that were before them (Berry 5). ... They gave him the worst dormitory and a job on the newspaper reporting about the white fraternity parties. ... There, in Africa, he was treated like he was White and found that it was, in many ways, like reverse discrimination from what was in America. ... He once said, "Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America" (Berry 21). When Hughes returned to New York City in 1926, he became involved in the Harlem Renaissance, and published his first poet...

• Word Count: 1218
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Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. ... In the early 1600's, British, French, Spanish, Dutch and Swedish settlements dotted the east coast of North America. ... In the year 1812, nearly 2000 blacks came to Nova Scotia after the war between the Americans and the British because once again the British promised freedom to all American Blacks who fought against the Americans. ... In the prairies, white and Black settlers shared the work of homesteading and relations between the two races were generally good and friendly. ... Life was n...

• Word Count: 2905
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• Grade Level: High School