{"id":8713,"date":"2011-10-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2011-10-25T01:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T06:44:58","slug":"november-15th-salon-series-lecture-at-apsu-to-discuss-harlem-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2011\/10\/25\/november-15th-salon-series-lecture-at-apsu-to-discuss-harlem-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"November 15th Salon Series Lecture at APSU to Discuss Harlem Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brian Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n

Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – In the early 20th century, some of the country\u2019s leading African American writers \u2013 including Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and Claude McKay \u2013 found a home for their works in the influential journal, \u201cThe Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races.\u201d<\/p>\n

The magazine\u2019s long-serving editor, W.E.B. Du Bois, the first African-American Ph.D. graduate of Harvard University, championed these writers, ushering in that pivotal period in American literature known as the Harlem Renaissance. But what many people don\u2019t realize is that the literary movement was born out of the strained relationships between these writers, Du Bois and the journal\u2019s white benefactors.<\/p>\n

At 5:00pm on November 15th, Dr. Brian Johnson, assistant vice president of academic affairs at Austin Peay State University, will bring to light this otherwise unknown dynamic within the highly acclaimed Harlem Renaissance period at the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts\u2019 Fall Salon Series, in the campus\u2019 Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong many other significant historical monikers, Dr. Du Bois was also known as the ‘dean of Negro literature’, and what we now know as the Harlem Renaissance was actually given birth within the pages of \u2018Crisis,\u2019\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Johnson is the editor and author of two books on W.E.B. Du Bois, \u201cDu Bois on Reform: Periodical-based Leadership for African Americans\u201d (2005) and \u201cW.E.B. Du Bois: Toward Agnosticism\u201d (2008), and a former fellow within the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for the Study of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.<\/p>\n

His November 15th lecture is free and open to the public. The Center hosts the Salon Series once a month during the fall and spring semesters, featuring distinguished local scholars, artists and arts organizations, followed by refreshments and good conversations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thrilled that Dr. Johnson, one of the leading scholars in the country on Du Bois, will be presenting on an important and little understood artistic movement,\u201d Christopher Burawa, director of the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, said. \u201cMany of the acclaimed inventions of literary Modernism have their origins within the Harlem Renaissance, and in the ideas of Du Bois.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the salon, contact the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at 931.221.7876.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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