Unit 1 - Unit 2 - Unit 3 - Unit 4 - Unit 5 - Unit 6

TOUR UNIT FIVE

Harlem- Black Metropolis: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

Day	Topic
Day 1	Jewish Harlem/ Making of a Ghetto I Arrange student presentations on Harlem Jazz HA, 136-139 Gurock, When Harlem Was Jewish Osofsky, Harlem: Making of a Ghetto, 81-104* ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ 1) How does real estate speculation produce a black Harlem?
Day 2	The Great Migration(s) Osofsky, Harlem: Making of a Ghetto, 105-123* Huggins, Harlem Renaissance, 13-26* ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ 1)What brings African Americans from the American South and the carribean to Harlem? What ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ are the push and pull factors that drive blacks from their places of origin and draw them to NYC ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ and Harlem?
Day 3	Political Harlem: Separation or Integration? Huggins, Harlem Renaissance, 26-51* W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk Ê(excerpt) handout on B.T. Washington, Du Bois and Garvey 1) How does the development of Black Harlem from the 1890s to the 1920s affect black political ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ thought?
Day 4	Literary Harlem and the ÎNew Negroâ: Renaissance or Revelation? Huggins, Harlem Renaissance, 52-83 Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me* Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers; I, Too; Visitors to the Black Belt Countee Cullen, Africa in class slides of African American art 1) Choose a poem for analysis. Address the question posed by Huggins: ã How do blacks assert both a mainstream American and distinctly ethnic identity through art? ** Special May Day assignment** read F. Scott Fitgeraldâs short story ãMay Dayä mapping project: How does Fitzgerald use the city to tell the story of MayÊ Day? Draw or xerox a map ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ of NYC and map the story
Day 5	Harlem Jazz: Periphery as Center Student presentations on Jazz Discuss tour location and choose stops(in groups)
Day 6	Making of a Ghetto II Library research Osofsky, Harlem: Making ofÊ a Ghetto, 127-149 * ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ 1) What is a ghetto? How does Harlem become one? Is Osofskyâs the only explanation? Was this a purely negative phenomenon? Did African Americanâs have agency in the process?
Day 7	Classroom and web research
Day 8	Classroom and web research and submit quiz questions
Day 9	Tour
Day 10	Quiz, debrief on tour and post contributions on the Gotham map website

** We will have aÊ day to discuss theÊ skyscraper, with a possible guest presentation on Rockefeller Center.**