The question below refers to the selection “when the negro was in vogue”. as you read the essay, how did you feel about harlem and the "period when the negro was in vogue"? support your answer with reference to the essay.

    While we read the essay we can assume that it demonstrates that the white interest in the black community only made the black people of Harlem lose their own spaces of communion and enjoyment, feeling uncomfortable as the white gangsters and white riches were dominating the bars, clubs and business that this community had;

   This situation is aggravated by the fact that the black people suffered from restrictions, where there was the "white only" places  . But, we can infer from the text that this approximation made it more common the communion of blacks and whites, in parties and places and with the knowing of the cultural aspects of black culture, it began to enter the mainstream media, through books and Broadway plays, raising as well the opportunity for black talented people to enter the spotlights, such as artists and writers (like Langston Hughes).

  Through the text we can see the dynamics of racial relationship in the 1920's that seems to be very conflicting and paradoxical when you analyze that in the same time when we had this beneficial increase of interest in the quality of black cultural aspects we hadn't any improvements in the segregation issue, with the rise of Ku Klux Klan propaganda and no changes in favor of the African-American rights.

barrio is a spanish word meaning neighborhood. in spain, several latin american countries and the philippines, the term is also used officially to denote a division of a municipality while a ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. the term may have originally been used in venice to describe the part of the city to which jews were restricted and segregated.

angel island immigration station was an immigration station located in san francisco bay which worked from 1910 to 1940. the majority of immigrants that got there were from the asian hemisphere, specifically from china, japan, russia, and south asia, being china the country from where more people arrived.

the number of foreigners arriving at it took the attention of americans who feared the new arrivals would take their jobs. the work opportunities were not abundant due to the economic comedown of 1870 and the asians, as newcomers, were willing to work for cheaper wages. soon they started to be seen as a threat, which led to an increased discrimination against the chinese - the biggest ethnicity arrived at this station until 1915 when japanese immigrants outnumbered them - being considered as unsuitable americans hence their looks and social situation.

at the station, the immigrant's detention may vary depending on how long the interrogation process took: it could be weeks, months, or even years.

finally, in 1940 an explosion destroyed administration building located on the island, so the united states government decided to stop the process.