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“I was in love with Harlem long before I got there.”–Langston Hughes, critically renowned Harlem writer At the turn of the century America saw an mass relocation of previously southern- based African Americans to northern cities from 1910 until the 1920s. Affordable housing and new job opportunities in the city after World […]
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Closely intertwined with the Harlem Renaissance was the New Negro Movement. The two are often paired hand-in-hand, as they both functioned in a symbiotic relationship, bouncing off of each other to keep the other alive. The New Negro Movement is less tangible than the Harlem Renaissance, and thus more difficult to define. The New Negro […]
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Through migration, urbanization and subsequent occupational differentiation, the years between 1890 and 1920 saw the development of new African-American enclaves and new social and economic leadership groups throughout the nation (Fultz, 98). Newly sprouted mass urban markets created new job opportunities, giving rise to a black middle and professional class. According to Fultz, this new […]
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New York City’s plethora of editors and publishing houses and zeal for literature made it an ideal location for budding black writers. Harlem’s literary renaissance was conceived under these pre-existing conditions, and it became the first significant African-American artistic movement to capture the eye of the broader public. The Harlem literary movement was never a […]
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It was no secret that the “roaring twenties” was associated with a sexual revolution throughout the entirety of the United States. New York City not only saw a dramatic shift in urban and racial landscapes after the Great Migration, but an accompanying shift in moral attitudes towards the subject of sexuality. Formerly taboo and covert, […]
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It is impossible to engage in a complete discussion of the Harlem Renaissance without acknowledging the contributions of white patrons and intellectuals. White patronage had a profound effect on the vitality of the Harlem Renaissance, and evidence suggests that the Renaissance would not have reached the heights that it did without generous white contributions. White […]
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Nella Larsen was a child of a mixed marriage between a West Indian father (of African descent) and a Danish mother, so the notion of passing between races was familiar to her. Compared to the amount of literature on Harlem blacks, there was considerably less material on mulattoes and their perception of the changing race-consciousness. Alain […]
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“Alain Locke.” Accessed from Howard University Education Web. Web. 13 March 2013. http://www.howard.edu/library/assist/guides/Alain-Locke.htm De Jongh, James. Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Print. Dorsey, Brian. Who Stole the Soul? Blaxploitation Echoed in the Harlem Renaissance. Salzburg: Instiut Fur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik Universitat Salzburg, 1997. Print. […]