Race, Representation, and Renaissance
When I taught the course in Fall 2020, I recognized that we had just marked a century since the start of the New Negro Renaissance period. There were other notable intersections: we were living through a once-in-a-century pandemic, as people had in 1918; and, we were in a period of national racial reckoning, as the country had been with the Red Summer race riots of 1919.
Read Prof. Morrison’s Story