AC 200
WEEK 5: Americanism and World War I/Harlem

and the Jazz Age


D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation (1915)

Screening: Birth of a Nation (1915) 7:30 p.m., WNR 202, Oct. 5

Anzia Yezierska, "How I Found America" (1920), 108-127;

Randolph Bourne, "Trans-National America" (1916), 170-180;

Patriotic music from World War I;

Rudolph Fisher, "City of Refuge," Atlantic Monthly(1925);

Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and other poems (1925);

Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Corcoran Gallery, http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html

Examples of Blues and Jazz Music

Lecture quotes from Monday

Lecture quotes from Wednesday

Discussion Questions