Mrs. Parkinson
English III
4 March 2016
Tableau Response
Harlem Renaissance writers, such as Countee Cullen, are still very relevant to this day. To understand the change in culture and how the civil rights movement progressed most accurately, we should go to first-hand accounts of what happened. In “Tableau” by Cullen, he eloquently compared the normativity of blacks and whites:
They pass, and see no wonder
That lightning brilliant as a sword
Should blaze the path of thunder (10-12)
On the topic of a black and white boy walking alongside each other, we cannot look to modern sources to understand how this would be differently viewed back during the Harlem Renaissance, so we must rely on their accounts. Hearing the stories from African-American artists in that time is much more reliable than
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