contact us | site guide | search  TOOLBOX HOME COMMUNITY 1. Community as Place 2. Community on Film 3. Community & Self-Help 4. Image, Community 1939 5. Race as Community 6. Community & the Folk 7. Community & Memory 8. Community & Culture 9. Image, Community 1968 10. Global Community COMMUNITY Framing Questions   •  How has the African American community defined itself?   •  How has the African American community functioned in the lives of its members?   •  How have changing notions of African American identity affected definitions of African American community? 1.  Community as Place» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - R. Edgar Iles, "Boley: An Exclusively Negro Town in Oklahoma," essay, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, August 1925 - James Weldon Johnson, "Harlem: The Culture Capital," essay in Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro, 1925 2.  Community on Film» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - H. Lee Waters, Kannapolis, N.C., film, 1941, in series Movies of Local People, video clips 3.  Community and Self-Help» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - A. I. Dixie and Samuel Dixie, interview, 1994, Behind the Veil Project, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University 4.  Image of Community, 1939» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - Augusta Savage, Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Harp), plaster sculpture, 1939 5.  Race as Community» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - George Schuyler, "The Negro-Art Hokum," essay, The Nation, 16 June 1926 - Langston Hughes, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," essay, The Nation, 23 June 1926 - E. Franklin Frazier, "Racial Self-Expression," essay in Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, ed. Charles S. Johnson, National Urban League, 1927 6.  Community and the Folk» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - Zora Neale Hurston, "Spunk," short story, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, June 1925 7.  Community and Memory» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - Henry Dumas, "Ark of Bones," short story, 1974 (published posthumously), excerpt 8.  Community and Culture» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - Larry Neal, "The Black Arts Movement," essay, Drama Review, Summer 1968, excerpt 9.  Image of Community, 1968» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - Elizabeth Catlett, Black Unity, wood sculpture, 1968 10.  Global Community» Text Links / Note / Discussion Questions - Malcolm X, "Not Just an American Problem, But a World Problem," address delivered in Corn Hill Methodist Church, Rochester, New York, 16 February 1965 Image: Elizabeth Catlett, Black Unity, mahogany sculpture (front and back), 1968. Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis. Permission pending. COMMUNITY 1. Community as Place   2. Community on Film   3. Community & Self-Help   4. Image, Community 1939   5. Race as Community 6. Community & the Folk   7. Community & Memory 8. Community & Culture   9. Image, Community 1968   10. Global Community TOOLBOX: The Making of African American Identity: Volume III, 1917-1968 Segregation | Migrations | Protest | Community | Overcome? Contact Us | Site Guide | Search Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in U.S. History and Literature National Humanities Center Web site comments and questions, contact: nhc_ed@nationalhumanitiescenter.org Copyright © National Humanities Center. All rights reserved. Revised: August 2007 nationalhumanitiescenter.org