Harlem Renaissance
Common Themes
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Alienation
Marginality
Folk material
Blues tradition
Difficulty Writing for Elite
audience
What Was it?
•Cultural, Social,
artistic explosion
•End of wwI – Mid 1930s
•Halrem – Cultural Center
•Black writers, artists,
Musicians,
Photographers, poets,
Scholars
•Racial Pride – “New
• The
Important
Elements/People
Great Migration (1900-1970)
– Traveling South for survival
– 1900s – move toward north – trains
– WWI
• Workers needed in factories
• Chicago encouraged blacks to migrate
• Southerners start to worry – losing
“work force”
– Migration – saw as “fulfillment of
God’s promise”
• North = Promised Land
– Jazz Musicians – Chicago, Kansas
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Important
People/Elements
Marcus Garvey
continued
– “the back to africa” movement
– 1911 – London
• Booker t. Washington’s Up from slavery
– 1914 – Jamaica
• Starts Universal Negro Improvement Assoc.
(U.N.i.a.)
– Objectives
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– 1916 –Harlem for support
– 1919 – Black Star Line
– 1922 – Edward Clarke – political
move
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Important
People/Elements
W.E.B. Ducontinued
Bois
– “twoness”
– 1895 – 1st African American – ph.d
in history – harvard
– focus of study – “black life in
american”
– 1898-1910 – hope in social science
– Challenged booker’s ideology
– Naacp – director of research
– Editor of The Crisis
– Coined “the talented tenth”
• The
Important
People/Elements
continued
Crisis
– Offical publication of naacp
– 1,000 readers first year
– 100,000 by eight year
– Criticized those against equal
rights
• President Woodrow wilson
– Promoted arts/Harlem renaissance
• Claude mCkay
• Langston hughes
• James weldon johnson
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Literature of the
Harlem Renaissance
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