Humanities Homework Help

Black and/or American?: The exploration of racial identity is a major topic in the fiction of the Harlem Renaissance that we have read this semester and it is a major focus in literature of African Americans, in general. Consider how poets from this era approach this idea (use two poems from this era and compare/contrast them).

Write about one of the following:

• the artist and his/her relationship to Africa
• forming a hybridized identity – both Black and American