ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Polysemy, William Carlos Williams, Jim Crow Laws
10 Sep 2017
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One of the most significant american writers of the 20th century . One of the foremost interpreters of racial relationships in the us . Harlem renaissance (supposed to be white neighbourhood, became black) Harlem, 1920: the new negro has no fear . Travels to the ussr in the 1930s. Works on a film about being black in america. Gets sent home, need to stop making propaganda films though. Good-morning, revolution: you"re the very best friend i ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on. From 1938 poem: let america be america again (let in be what it promised to be, like declaration of independence) Theme of john kerry"s presidential campaign in 2004. The right loved the fact that he"d plagiarized a black communist homosexual who had spent time in the soviet union. March 1953: appears before the house of commons on un-american activities chaired by senator mccarthy.
