He glorifies her as an athlete, then a powerful animal, and lastly as a machine that is associated with conquering the skies. ... I can spend money, I've saved it all my lie but I'm going to spend it now, spend and spend and spend, until I can buy Mamie Smith."" ... He expects to buy her like a man would buy a prostitute, like a man would buy a car. ...
With the money that the "riveters- earned, they could buy nice things like fur coats and pretty dresses. ... While working women were buy fur coats, these people were living off of what they could bring with them at the time of there evacuation. ... The women in the camps were stripped of all of their civil liberties and they were treated like they were animals. ...
The writers of the Harlem Renaissance helped people of all communities to identify black people as living, thinking, feeling humans, instead of the animals that some whites felt they were at the time. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ...
