Create an argumentative, thesis-based essay. The essay should move beyond summarization. Use the listed and attached texts to support, not overpower your own argument that contains your own interpretation of the course texts.
Do not include an Intro or Conclusion section. Only answer the four questions.
In The Negro-Art Hokum, George Schuyler argues that it is sheer nonsense to talk about racial differencesbetween the American black man and the American white man because In the homes of the black and white Americans of the same cultural and economic level one finds similar furniture, literature, and conversation. He asks, How, then, can the black American be expected to produce art and literature dissimilar to that of the white American? In other words, Schuyler argues that racial differences do not exist between black Americans and white Americans because both groups speak the same language and come from the same American culture.
Write an essay where you address the following questions:
1. According to Harlem Renaissance writers, what are the characteristics of black American culture? Provide at least one specific example from the texts that we have read that supports your analysis.
2. According to Harlem Renaissance writers, what are the characteristics of white American culture? Provide at least one specific example from the texts that we have read that supports your analysis.
3. Do you agree with Schuyler? Why or why not?
4. What is an example from our contemporary time period that reaffirms or refutes Schuylers claim that racial differences do not exist between black Americans and white Americans? How does the example you chose help us understand or complicate Schuylers argument?
The readings:
The Negro-Art Hokum by George Schuyler (https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1926-george-s-schulyer-negro-art-hokum-0/)
David Levering Lewis Introduction to The Portable Harlem Renaissance (attached)
Claude McKays If We Must Die (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die)
Claude McKays The Lynching (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56983/the-lynching)
Claude McKays Harlem Shadows (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44693/harlem-shadows)
Jessie Fausets Dead Fires (https://www.bartleby.com/269/94.html)
Alice Dunbar Nelsons Sonnet (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53784/sonnet-56d233695cc6f)
James Weldon Johnsons O Black and Unknown Bards (https://www.bartleby.com/269/39.html)
Countee Cullens Heritage (https://liberal-arts.wright.edu/sites/liberal-arts.wright.edu/files/page/attachments/Heritage_CounteeCullen.pdf)
Alain Lockes The New Negro (http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Locke%20The%20New%20Negro.pdf)
W.E.B. Du Bois Criteria of Negro Art (http://www.webdubois.org/dbCriteriaNArt.html?__hstc=223762052.192084aac03c316b99a378baecb70229.1369743639772.1369743639772.1369743639772.1&__hssc=223762052.1.1369743639773)
Langston Hughes The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69395/the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain)
Nella Larsens Passing (https://genius.com/albums/Nella-larsen/Passing)
Zora Neale Hurstons How it Feels to be Colored Me (https://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf)
Langston Hughes I, Too (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too)
Langston Hughes Harlem (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem)
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