Harlem Renaissance and American Modernism Vocabulary | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Key terms of the literary movements Harlem Renaissance and American Modernism

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A cultural movement of the 20th century embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated.

Modernism

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Explain the term Prohibition

The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale, making and drinking of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment.

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Complete and explain what it means: Make it ______

New - The act of trying out a new procedure, idea, or activity, or transforming an old form of art

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Another term that connects with Make it new and Experimentation

Avant-garde

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A literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity in America, jazz included.

Harlem Renaissance

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Name one author that belong to the group known as The Lost Generation

Fitzgerald, Hemingway...

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Explain Duality or Double Consciousness

The internal conflict experienced by subordinated or colonized groups in an oppressive society.

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Influential migration movement by southern African Americans to the Northeast, Midwest, and West; began as a consequence of the "Great War"/World War I and nationalized race issue

The Great Migration

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