Folk Art

Authors wanted to how their pride in their culture by strengthening their identity as a coloured insist dead of imitating the way whites wrote. The mental hospital states, God thought and thought, till he t Hough Ill make me a man This is an example Of an author using dialect to show their pride f or their culture. Homesick Blues states, Homesick blues, Laid, S a terrible thing to have. HTH s quote also shows pride in his culture because of the situation that he is writing about being h mommies using dialect. Black Authors would often criticize those who mimicked white literature.The eye believed they could show pride by continuing to speak and write in African American dialect in order to celebrate the lives of African Americans. While some authors though writing n their make dialect was not traditional, African Americans began writing folk art. This raise d awareness of the culture and enabled authors to write their story as slaves in their own dial etc. Longs Hughes once sa id, no great poet has ever been afraid Of being hi myself. He shares that opinion with other authors who illustrate folk art.These writers the ought the vanquish ay to show racial pride was to create folk art. Homesick Blues states, Look in for a box car to roll me to De South. This excerpt shows the authors delight for him home in t he south just standardized any average man would. Pop Boy Blues states, when was home De Sunshine seemed like gold. Since came up North De whole damn worlds turned cold. This is another ere example of an average everyday man missing his homeland and being treated differently in an unfamiliar place. The Great Migration was the moving of African Americans from the South to the North.They opted moving would leave racial discrimination in the south and hoped to fin d new-made opportunities up North. Harlem population Of African Americans rose from 1 O percent in 191 0, to 98 percent in 1950. This heightened the number of black owned touch nesses ma king Harlem a symbol of African American self sufficiency. Thus creating a time of great racial pride for African Americans. Their pride in the culture then became a major t home in their art and poetry. From then on in order to end racial discrimination, black artists b Egan creating high and folk art.