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Before the Mayflower (Chapter 10) More on Passing: A Planned Film Garvey Again

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Mary Kuhn — The joy of black life is indeed written about. Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker (often in Toni Morrison); H-R writers Rudolph Fisher and Zora Neale Hurston, and in today’s poets. Christine Yoffe — Clare’s angst has been engendered by multiple factors, certainly her husband cannot be ruled out. Donna Calame — Yes, Clare would have been much happier with a white, non-racist mate (Gertrude was happy); her reasons for passing are multifold; IRENE DID IT!

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Jim Kohn — What is “Jew-dar” and “Gay-dar?” Darlene Wolf — Whites who pass as Black would indeed have to be conversant in Black cultural idioms (my Marvin Gaye comment last week); African-Americans and other American “people of color” know “mainstream” culture because they have to know “what’s goin’ on.”

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Christine Yoffe — I have not come across any evidence in her many biographies that she was Lesbian: she “presented” heterosexual. She did marry and wrote letters about a “friendship” abroad with a British fellow tourist in Spain and Portugal: she wrote “he was eager to enjoy [her] company. Maxine Einhorn — I do NOT think she jumped.

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Jon Kruse — re. contemporary passing (evidence I have is anecdotal): passing not common in African-American communities in the last 50 years (yes, the need not pressing); there is more “relative” equality in U.S. since mid 20th century. The article from last week’s class. Jeanne Powell— “Chapter 10” Michelle Anderson — Liberia

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Film to View for Next Class

“Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance” (just under 60 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvqVnSaRePY

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Hughes

• “Let America Be America Again”
• “The Weary Blues”
• “Song for A Dark Girl”
• “The Negro Speaks Of Rivers”

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“If We Must Die” “Africa” “America” “The Harlem Dancer”

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• “Heritage” (For Harold Jackman)
• “Tableau”