Description acceptable. In a short story titled for this practice, Jack writes letters to his mother explaining his use of it. For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this practice which Irene Redfield resents Clare Kendry for being able to perform in a 1920 Nella Larsen novel named for it. An “autobiography” by James Weldon Johnson depicts an anonymous ragtime player undertaking this practice.
ANSWER: passing as white [accept descriptions of being seen as white; or hiding one’s race; accept becoming an Ex-Colored man] (James Weldon Johnson wrote “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.”)
[10m] Jack appears in this author’s short story “Passing” from his collection “The Ways Of White Folk.” In one poem, this author questions if a phenomenon “[stinks] like rotten meat” and asks “ Or does it explode?”
ANSWER: Langston Hughes [or James Mercer Langston Hughes]
[10e] Hughes asks about a “dream deferred” in a poem titled for this African-American neighbourhood of New York City. Both Larsen and Hughes were prominent figures in this neighborhood's namesake 1920s “Renaissance.”
ANSWER: Harlem [accept Harlem Renaissance]
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