HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sylvia Beach, Essentialism, James Reese Europe
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Know to identify term, say significance and tie to reading. Questions asked to relate readings directly to the lectures. White and black expatriates in paris between the wars: review and conclude, mencken. His reporting on scope trial was very influential. Presented the people as monkeys they refused to be associated with. In his reporting you can tell he was from the city and felt out of his element in the small town. Harlem in ny is like a modern movement against traditionally negative negro self-perception. Harlem parties get shit down for immorally illegal deeds, seen as modern, like teaching evolution. The jazz age: wwi, 1920s, and the modern harlem. Harlem and the new negro: modern"s, traditionalists, and the scopes trial. The world according to jake: french influenced interpreters of american life. Alienated younger generation, or lost generation in the 1920s disenchantment after the war, concern about artistic and intellectual vapidity in the u. s.
