AYITI & THE NEW NEGRO/HARLEM RENAISSANCE: PICTURING TRANSNATIONAL CONNECTIONS & INFLUENCES

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In conjunction with the 2025 Langston Hughes Festival, Ayiti & the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance – an internship class – invites students to consider the connections between Langston Hughes and 2025 Langston Hughes Medal awardee Roxanne Gay through the lens of the lesser-explored influences of Haiti, the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), and the US Occupation (1915-1934) of the western hemisphere’s first black republic upon the Renaissance and the Haitian diaspora. Students will read primary sources and secondary literature by and about Hughes, Gay, and the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance and conduct research and learn about curation and preservation at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to produce an ArcGIS digital StoryMap. Please contact Prof. Laurie Woodard with any questions: [email protected]