HARLEM RENAISSANCE PROJECT
| Assignment:
Individually or in pairs, explore the Harlem Renaissance and related topics.
Choose an artist, issue, poem, or any other topic discussed in class to create a product that is reflective of the time period. |
Let's look at how we can find information about our chosen topic....
The 3 Main Parts to Searching on the Internet:
Invisible Web - Mostly made up of databases...See this useful UC Berkeley Library site for more information.
Books in the Churchill Library? Go to LibNet. Poets? Journalists? Novelists? Playrights? etc.... Try the Literature Resource Center General
information about the period and specific topics? Use InfoTrac
and Ebscohost. Photos of specific events and people? Use AP Photo Archive. Artists and their art? Use Grove Art Online. |
Subject Directories - "Human selected collections of web pages" -From the UC Berkeley Library. Includes list of useful subject directories.
Try
the following subject directories to find information about your Harlem
Renaissance topic. |
Search Engines - How do search engines really work? Check out this UC Berkeley Site.
| Teoma
- One of the best search engines for academic searching...really amazing! Vivisimo - A Meta-search engine and clustering software. Try the "Clusty" search. Google - The classic... |
Electronic Search Strategies to help you in your searching.
The following WWW links will also help you locate information to complete the assignment:
| Africana-describes the beginning, the characteristics, the end and influence of the Harlem Renaissance, variously known as the New Negro movement or the New Negro Renaissance |
| Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance - includes writers, poets, artists, photographers, actors, singers, musicians, composers, and activists. |
| BlackPressUSA (Article 1)-an essay on how black magazines defined the Harlem Renaissance BlackPressUSA (Article 2) -an essay on how the Harlem Renaissance was an "opportunity for writers". BlackPressUSA (Article 3) - an essay on the beginning of the Associated Negro Press. |
| Eras in Black History-(Invisible Web database) the Encyclopedia Britannica guide to EB online and related internet links |
| Harlem:Mecca of the New Negro-a hypermedia edition of the March 1925 Survey Graphic magazine |
| Harlem Renaissance-links with background information on poetry, politics, women, jazz and theater |
| Harlem Renaissance-a thinkquest put together by high school students in West Virginia |
| Harlem Renaissance-a site created at Father Ryan High School by students who felt the HR was a cultural movement that allowed African-Americans to show their creative abilities to the world |
| Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture-(Invisible Web database) an exhibition and timeline of Harlem from 1900-1940 |
| Webliography - An amazing list of links to hundreds of HR resources. EVERYONE will find good stuff here. |
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Last updated March 9, 2006
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