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Harlem Renaissance Man: James Weldon Johnson

4/6/2019

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Diplomat and hymn-writer, Broadway lyricist, activist, and historian, James Weldon Johnson was an early figurehead of the NAACP. This week's episode explores his life and multifaceted legacy.

Podcaster: Lucy
Further Reading

James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way, Viking Press, (1933).

——, “The Creative Negro,” in: America As Americans See It, ed. Fred C. Ringel, Literary Guild, (1932), 160-165.

——, “God’s Trombones”.

——-, ed., The Book of American Negro Poetry. Repr., Harcourt, Brace, and Company, (1931). 

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Richard Hardack, "The Tragic Immigrant: Duality, Hybridity and the Discovery of Blackness in Mark Twain and James Weldon Johnson." ELH 82:1 (2015): 211-49.

Timo Müller. "James Weldon Johnson and the Genteel Tradition." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 69:2 (2013): 85-102.

NAACP: James Weldon Johnson. 

"James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)." In African American Almanac, ed. Lean'tin Bracks. Visible Ink Press, (2012). 

“James Weldon Johnson.” In: The Oxford Companion to African-American Literature, eds. William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris, Oxford University Press, (1997).

Brian Roberts, "PASSING INTO DIPLOMACY: U.S. CONSUL JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN." Modern Fiction Studies 56:2 (2010): 290-316,469.

Tabitha Wang, “East St. Louis Race Riot, 1917.” 

Clark Atlanta University History.

“Brander Matthews.” 

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
3 Comments
Jennifer in St. Louis
4/7/2019 12:37:29 pm

Hi. At about 6 minutes in, the podcast refers to the St. Louis Massacre, and describes them as happening in 1917. I think you may be conflating two different events.

The St. Louis Massacre occurred on May 10, 1861. The East St. Louis Race Riots (aka the East St. Louis Massacres) occurred in May and July 1917.

Thanks!

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Lucy
4/11/2019 01:16:17 am

I'm not conflating the two, certainly, but I'm sorry for the ambiguity.

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Vincent Colapietro
8/20/2019 11:48:06 am

Thoughtful, engaged, and informative podcast. In such a short span, the texture and details of contextualization of this important but all too little known figure are effectively provided by narrator.

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