HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alain Leroy Locke, Florence Mills, Sidney Bechet
Document Summary
The jazz age in black and white: review and conclude: the new woman as a harbinger of the modern. World war i and battles on the home front. Central powers: german empire, autro-hungarian empire, ottoman empire, United staes = initially neutral, strongly divided, but entered was april of 1917. They got involved because they wanted to have a stake in international markets like asia and wanted to protect their right to be involved in china. Labor: war for democracy, mobilizing for the war, migration. Unions were active and laborers were dissatisfied with conditions. In 1910, most black people lived in the south. They moved north during this period: mexican migration increases because of mexican revolution and better jobs. They are treated similarly as black people: women. Used war rhetoric to fight the democracy idea. They got more work opportunities when men went off to war. Rationalizing economy: moves to modern mode of fordism .
