Jaxon Jaggers

Mrs. Parkinson

ENG III Bell 7

4 March 2016

Just the way we Work

            Tableau, it means a group of models a scene from a story or history. In the poem Tableau by Countee Cullen, he depicts two children, black and white, arm in arm, walking in unison. Back in the time of the Harlem Renaissance this would be a very unlikely sight, people black and white were separated in society, we treated colored people like outcasts. They had their own way of life, and we had ours. Two groups of people living in the same world but in different ways. Cullen shows how two people, black and white, would be viewed together, it was frowned upon. Nobody liked the idea of the two races being together, but whether they knew it or not they both had an impact on the way the other society lived. They both had an influence and a part in the culture of that time.