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    The Harlem Renaissance was a period of explosive cultural and intellectual growth for the African Americans because it was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity. The Harlem Renaissance took place in Harlem, New York City during the 1920-1930’s. Many of the things that came about during the Harlem Renaissance were things such as jazz, poetry, dance, music theaters, and black writers. This time was also known as the New Negro Movement, was considered

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    Home To Harlem Analysis

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    In his analysis of Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem, Shane Vogel refers to the text as a piece of literature which is “invested in ‘affective mimesis.’” Essentially, the text is interested in the reproduction of feelings and senses. The success of the text is based on the audience’s ability to feel what McKay wants them to feel. Of course, this method has its limits. How will a non-black audience capable of absorbing the material presented exactly as McKay means for it to be interpreted? The answer

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a movement that cause an artistic explosion. It was first known as the new Negro movement it also included cultural expressions across the across the Northeast and Midwest due to the great migration Duke Ellington was one of the well-known musicians of that because of the ways he affected music. Once duke reach the age of 7 he began to take piano lessons at this point Ellington knew he had a special interest in music. The nickname “Duke” was given on to him by Edward

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    The Harlem Renaissance was the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York between the conclusion of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period, Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. Many had come from the South, fleeing its oppressive caste system in order to find a place where they could freely express their talents; this became known as The Great Migration

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    Also known as The New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was an abstract and scholarly blooming that encouraged African American social character in the 1920s and 1930s. The movement was mainly caused by racial tensions in the southern United States after World War I. Many of the African-Americans who had served in World War I were angered by the prejudice that they confronted when they came back. Furthermore, the African Americans working in farms had very low pay. Even though they did backbreaking

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    and teacher Alain Locke. The Harlem Renaissance, or the "New Negro Movement," was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that kindled a new black cultural identity in the 1920's to the mid-1930s (History.com). Harlem was the Mecca for black writers, musicians, poets, and scholars. The Harlem Renaissance included visual arts, but excluded jazz, even though it have similarity as a black art form. The combination of whites prejudice and the exotic world of Harlem sought out and published black

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    Essay on The Harlem Renaissance

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    African Americans throughout the United States and abroad became part of the movement in Harlem. . New forms of blues, jazz, and ragtime flourished during this time. The development of the phonograph, radio, and works by Scott Joplin, and Eubie Blake became the most popular music in Harlem and in America. This new sound influenced the more conservative sounds of European and folk music. It also brought forth black Broadway

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a pivotal point in history. While it did not break down the racial barriers associated with Jim Crow laws, the attitudes toward race did change. Most importantly, black pride became paramount as African Americans sought to express themselves artistically through art and literature, in an effort to create an identity for themselves equal to that of the white Americans. Many writers influenced this period with their works, and African Americans gained their rightful place

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    From the discrimination and fear African Americans dealt with after their emancipation from slavery less than a century earlier derived art and culture so beautiful and unique, it would become one of the greatest movements in history. The Harlem Renaissance was a time when African Americans had the artistic freedom to express themselves, yet they were still being oppressed by white society. African American musicians, scholars and poets made social and political statements about the poor treatment

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    Is the Harlem Renaissance Correctly Labeled as a Renaissance? In the words of W.E.B. Dubois, "Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked—who is good? Not that men are ignorant—what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”(WebWriterSpotlight.com) With every passing day, year, and century, the worldwide wealth of knowledge accumulates. In the years of almost exponential growth history retroactively declares a renaissance

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