Time period: 1919-1940
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- Some Caucasian people played a part in the publications of black people.
- Many White social leaders held interracial parties and other events that broke barriers and encouraged desegregation.
- Though there were mixed events, there was still segregation in the North. It just became more widely accepted to intermingle.
- The older and newer generations of the movement began clashing over the overall meaning of the Harlem Renaissance.
- The older movements believed in expressing themselves through writing while the newer generations attempted to prove the theater was "better" then expression through writing.
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The Great depression but an end to the harlem renaissance because people could no longer afford to publish books, fund theater productions, etc. |
MULATTO
The title gives the impression that he topic will be about the African American color complex that plagues the community of the slave master's mistreatment of their female servants. The poems refers to rape of slaves and how the offspring deals with his white family. The white family refuses to identify with the "little yellow bastard boy." He exclaims that they his brothers and the man is his father.
When Langston Hughes writes "The moon over the turpentine woods" he is describing the relations shared between slave and slave master. "Full of stars, Great big yellow stars" refers to the children conceived from this relation. "The Southern night is full of stars" means that rape is not uncommon and their off-springs are many.
It rhymes occasionally but is free form. The language can be seen as informal because of the use of the term bastard. The attitude of son remains the scene of throughout the poem; he wants his father to recognize him. Not in a father-son relationship, but as in "you raped my mother." This explains why he calls his father "white man" instead of dad. The poem refocuses the view of the light-skinned people, but now from the vantage point of whites.
When Langston Hughes writes "The moon over the turpentine woods" he is describing the relations shared between slave and slave master. "Full of stars, Great big yellow stars" refers to the children conceived from this relation. "The Southern night is full of stars" means that rape is not uncommon and their off-springs are many.
It rhymes occasionally but is free form. The language can be seen as informal because of the use of the term bastard. The attitude of son remains the scene of throughout the poem; he wants his father to recognize him. Not in a father-son relationship, but as in "you raped my mother." This explains why he calls his father "white man" instead of dad. The poem refocuses the view of the light-skinned people, but now from the vantage point of whites.