Emerging Voices – “Harlem Renaissance”
Questions to answer for one quiz grade. Each question is worth 25 points out of the eventual 100.
Due: __________________________
1. Explain the concept of “twoness” or being more than one as an identity. Use textual evidence from our
readings to support your explanation (and explain how that evidence supports you). Complete
sentences, please (perhaps a nice paragraph).
2. What are the differences and similarities between the Locke article and the Douglass article? This may
be bullet points.
3. What are the differences and similarities between the Hughes articles and the Du Bois article? This may
be bullet points.
4. Pick one author: Douglass, Du Bois, Locke or Hughes and read biographies of him. Wikipedia should
be alright for this, but I have a brief biography of Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois on my website
which might be helpful for the following question:
Question: What appear to be motivations for writing what your chosen author
wrote? Complete sentences, please (perhaps a nice paragraph)
Please, when reading the brief biographies, be certain you understand what is said. If one of the authors
became a member of “the black expatriate community” in Paris, you need to know what that is.