The following sites will help you complete your Web lesson. Explore and bookmark them.

Gershwin biographers Robert Kimball and Alfred Simon wrote:

"It is astonishing today how innovative the treatment of black life in Porgy was. Heyward wrote not out of pity for an exploited race, nor with any desire to propagandize; rather it was his intention to dramatize a way of life which he found strange and admirable and worthy of serious artistic expression."

Conduct research on the Internet to put this quote in context and either affirm or contradict the authors' perspective.

The following sites will help you complete your assignment. Explore and bookmark them.

  • HYPE: Center for Media and the Black Experience
    http://www.Webcom.com/nattyreb/hype/welcome.html

  • The Harlem Renaissance: White Exploitation of Black Self-Expression
    http://www.middlebury.edu/~lmoore/

  • Images of Black Women in Zora Neale Hurston's THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
    http://www.grin.edu/~gardnerj/thirties/jw.html

  • Uncle Remus Critique
    http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/remus/anafish.html

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