Journal Entry for Chicago
My motivation for writing about Chicago is that we left it out when we were divvying up cities and towns. Poor Chicago! It was an important step on Helga Crane’s journey, just as it was an important step in hundreds of thousands of Black migrants’ lives during the Great Migration. Even so, writing as Harlem, I had to bull-skate a little, to use one of Zora Neale Hurston’s terms. I hope it wasn’t gross to make use of her Harlem Story glossary. I meant to be playful, but not gleeful, as in respectful and not appropriational or mocking.
I used a number of tertiary resources, which feels a little weird to cite, but reference materials seemed the most appropriate for this blend of creative and research-based writing. I would like to dig more deeply into the WPA funding of Black artists in the 1920s. Maybe next move!
Works Cited
“Chicago Black Renaissance.” Wikipedia, 9 Sept. 2018. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chicago_Black_Renaissance&oldid=858727170.
Chicago Renaissance – African American Studies – Oxford Bibliographies – Obo. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780190280024/obo-9780190280024-0055.xml. Accessed 9 Nov. 2018.
Dolinar, Brian. “Radicals on Relief: Black Chicago Writers and the WPA.” American Communist History, vol. 14, no. 1, Apr. 2015, pp. 27–39. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/14743892.2015.1013281.
The Great Migration. https://www.chipublib.org/the-great-migration/. Accessed 10 Nov. 2018.
Hurston_Harlem_Slang.Pdf. https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Hurston_Harlem_Slang.pdf. Accessed 10 Nov. 2018.
Hutchinson, George. “Harlem Renaissance.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., vol. 3, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, pp. 424–26, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3045300994/GVRL?u=columbiau&sid=GVRL&xid=ccb99e72.