1	Afro 100 Culture Aaron Douglas 1898 - 1979
2	Have you ever wondered what would be said if Black people spoke the truth to people in the United States? Maybe it would come out as a poem. This is what Amiri Baraka had to say.
3	What is the cultural theory behind the Baraka video clip? The merger of poetry and music The merger of reason and emotion The poem can represent the voice of Black people, be a cultural consensus Art as a weapon by the oppressed Culture can be a vehicle for change Vision of the future as a necessary revolutionary transformation
4	There are two perspectives on culture Styles and values of everyday life, including dialects, food production and preparation, clothing, dancing, morality, and aesthetics Art forms, representational forms of expression carried out as specialized activity that can be ranked
5	Culture always involves hair.
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12	Historical Periodization Art and culture always reflects the social conditions and individual experiences of the artists and people involved. African American art and culture is based in the historical periodization of the African American people.
13	The logic of Black history: modes of social cohesion, modes of social disruption Africa Slave trade Slavery Emancipation Rural tenancy Great migrations Urban industry Structural crisis Information society
14	African retention is a vital aspect of African American Culture Basic aesthetics, religion, language, food, music and dancing, hair care and styling, and much more
15	Kwanzaa Some African cultural practices have been imagined and created by African Americans in search of their past. A 1960’s movement called cultural nationalism utilized the search for a value system to anchor their cultural views in African tradition. Karenga was a major figure in popularizing a seven point system and a holiday ritual to replace Christmas.
16	Cultural innovation during slavery Cotton production and brutality conditioned Black people to harness their emotions and focus on describing their suffering, while praising God.
17	The “Negro spiritual” was the greatest cultural genius during slavery. The Low moans and melodies of Black Christians revealed the soul of a new people, out of Africa and being reshaped by the pain of white racism and creative Black genius. The Fisk Jubilee singers popularized these songs all over the world.
18	Culture of the Black Belt Nation BLUES – the musical foundation of African American culture and all of American popular music. This music is important as musical composition, as poetry and as philosophy. The harder the life, the better the blues.
19	JAZZ: The culture of the Black metropolis
20	The Harlem Renaissance, 1920’s This is the Black counterpart to the “Roaring 20’s” as Black people were expressing a breakout cultural impulse. These were bold and exciting times. The activists were called “New Negroes,” with a militant attitude and freedom on their mind. Harlem was the capital of Blacks in the US during this period.
21	Got the Weary Blues And can't be satisfied-- I ain't happy no mo' And I wish that I had died." And far into the night he crooned that tune. The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that's dead. The Weary Blues Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o' those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody. O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. Sweet Blues! Coming from a black man's soul. O Blues! In a deep song voice with a melancholy tone I heard that Negro sing, that old piano moan-- "Ain't got nobody in all this world, Ain't got nobody but ma self. I's gwine to quit ma frownin' And put ma troubles on the shelf." Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor. He played a few chords then he sang some more-- "I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.
22	"If we must die" If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
23	The Chicago Renaissance, 1940’s The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of the middle class, while the Chicago Renaissance of the 1940’s was a celebration of the working class. Wright wrote: “…the Negro writer must create in his readers’ minds a relationship between a Negro woman hoeing cotton in the South an the men who toil in swivel chairs in Wall Street and take the fruits of her toil.”
24	The Black Arts Movement, 1960’s
25	Hip Hop emerged after the final end of the 1960’s – conscious victims of the American dream.
26	Corporate takeover of Black culture The carnival festival: originally a slave ritual protest, expression of freedom
27	Stevie Wonder answers the American nightmare.
28	Black Studies approach to culture It is important to always include the culture of everyday life as well as the arts, popular culture and the museums. Always contextualize art and culture in terms of the historical and economic forces shaping artists and their audience Identify African retentions Codify how the people interpret their own cultural expression
29	Webliography Slide 01: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Douglas Slide 02: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- 4839280096979675505&q=amiri+baraka&total=55&start=10&num=10&so=0&type= search&plindex=9 Slide 10: www.murchisoncenter.org/cyberhair Slide 11: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Biggers Slide 12: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Catlett and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lawrence Slide 14: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Mailou_Jones Slide 15: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8350545555560382614&q=karenga&total=11&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1 Slide 17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_Jubilee_Singers Slide 18: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues Slide 19: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington Slide 20: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance Slide 21: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes Slide 22: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_McKay Slide 23: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author) Slide 24: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arts_Movement and http://thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=125 Slide 27: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAthMi5Kz5g