Welcome to the Harlem Renaissance Blog!
The purpose of this forum is to explore why the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s is so important today. In areas of art, poetry, music and dance, we can still find personal and historical connections.
I hope you will find creative ways to write about, learn from and celebrate this period in American history (1919-1940)
"The Harlem Renaissance has also been called the "New Negro Movement" after the title of art historian Alain Locke’s book The New Negro, which urged black artists to reclaim their ancestral heritage as a means of strengthening their own expression." Harlem Renaissance Art
WHAT IS IT?
Rebirth of African-American art, music, literature and poetry, following the Civil War Reconstruction period.
WHY DID IT HAPPEN?
African-Americans migrated North to avoid racist oppression and Jim Crow laws in the South. They settled in Harlem, where there was already a "black mecca"
WHAT DID IT MEAN?
Self-Expression & Identity formation New Negro, "urban literate" Combated racist attitudes of the time
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