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| 1904-First black millionaire (Hair straighteners from lye and skin lighteners from bleach or tablets of arsenic) |
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1905- When Niagara Movement merged with group of concerned white citizens
-No black officers in the first 20 years
-DuBois was the first black president (public face)
-Negro Welfare League in book |
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1892-Homer Plussey (1/8 black) riding in first class train, thrown off. He decided to sue but only cared about himself, not all blacks.
Established 3 mandates:
1. Separate but equal
2. One drop rule
3. African Americans had "second class citizenship" |
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1919-1929- Stock market crash
-Explosion of African American artistic and intellectual thought
-All northern cities experiences similar explosions
-After the end of WWI, many African Americans moved to the north, causing the north and the south to mingle together
-Games on black people such as "keep the n______ running"
-unemployment as high as 50%
-Bryan tries to point out the other side of Harlem |
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-Black people must embrace one identity, either black or white half
-Defined by who is in position of power
-Irene tries to do both by being black but then going to Drayton to have tea |
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Adopted by Zora Neale Hurston
Was politically charged
Represents what Clare wants to be (why she is seen as selfish) |
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Leader of a black nationalism group
"Back to Africa"
-founded "Black Star Shipping"
-Most of white America was against his ideas (less people to do labor jobs, afraid of rebellion, looks bad on U.S. because it is supposed to be a haven)
-U.S. arrests his for mail fraud (deported to Jamaica) |
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| Rise of the KKK during the Harlem Renaissance |
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D.W. Griffith's film "Birth of a Nation" included all of the irrational fears as facts with the KKK coming to save the day to repress the black monster. Finally Jesus comes back to earth. Theater run was 7 years. Woodrow Wilson quoted that this movie was true.
-12 million men joined the Klan
-4 million women join Sisters of the Klan
-Indiana has the most Klan members
-3 presidents were members (Wilson, Truman, & Harding-inducted in White house)
-1920 was the highest membership, 2010 was the second highest |
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Someone of one group deciding to live in another group.
Repressed vs. supreme (dominant) group
-racial passing
-gender passing
-religious passing |
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| Jack's nickname for Clare |
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"Nig"
Clare is broken by this because she must choose to either be bitter or to accept and believe what is said. |
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-Made blackness seem like a disease-
"it"- a dark child
-Gertrude assumes her audience agrees with her (she has had this conversation before)
-Clare is removed from difficult decisions because Margery is in Europe "being a mother is the cruelest thing" |
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-Clubs were white only except for the musicians
-Whites would go to Harlem for entertainment (to watch black people in their native culture) |
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| Evidence that Irene killed Clare |
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-Irene stayed back
-Irene's body language
-wanted to keep Bryan to herself (had previous thoughts of killing Clare)
-obsessed with the idea of Clare dying
-she represses the memory
-Irene opened the window when it was snowing
-dropped her cigarette (uses the same language)
-interested in number of stairs
-"her fright was like a scarlet spear of terror leaping at her heart" (scarlet: anger, love, blood - spear: pierces, somewhat personal, hunting, primitive - spear of terror: constant - leaping: attacking, predatory - heart: instant, emotion)
-broken cup connection
-may have suffered a panic attack |
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| Evidence that Clare committed suicide |
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-She has no community
-She said that if Jack found out she would move to Harlem (not realistic)
-smiling right before death
-she is standing by the window
-she likes to be the center of attention
-she is selfish
-she says she is "lonely" and "not safe" |
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| Evidence that Irene too was suicidal but Clare beat her to it |
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| Irene opened the window for herself? |
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| Irene and Bryan's relationship |
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-Bryan is happier with Clare
-Clare wants Irene's life
-both want to cross boundaries
-Bryan invited Clare to a party knowing Irene didn't want her there
-offers to drop Irene off first, then Clare
-the way he looks at Clare |
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| Evidence that Clare might be willing to have an affair |
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-selfish
-unhappy with her own life
-Bryan and Jack were complete opposites
-when we first met Clare, she was with another man |
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| Evidence that Bryan might be willing to have an affair |
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-Speaks about passion, Irene tells him to shut up
-calls sex a joke (Irene is also a joke)
-says that Clare is better looking but they aren't his type |
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