Teaching the Harlem Renaissance through Hemingway: Divergences and Intersections of \u3cem\u3eThe New Negro\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eIn Our Time\u3c/em\u3e

Classroom approach teaching Alain Locke’s The New Negro (1925) alongside Hemingway’s In Our Time to demonstrate the ways in which black and white authors contributed to modernist literature. Pipes concentrates on how modernism was a consequence of both World War I and the race war in America, focusing on convergences and divergences between black and white portrayals of the modern human condition. Begins by contextualizing the racial unrest of 1920s America before moving into a deeper exploration of the expatriated experience of Harlem Renaissance authors and the relationship between the stories of In Our Time and the writings and artwork in Locke’s anthology