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Harlem Renaissance1
Title: Harlem Renaissance1
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1164 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Harlem Renaissance1
The Harlem Renaissance
Or the New Negro Movement
The dawn of the 1920’s ushered in an African American artistic and cultural movement, the likes of which have never and will likely never be seen again. Beginning as a series of literary discussions in Greenwich Village and Harlem, the “New Negro Movement” (later dubbed the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke) came to exalt the unique culture of African Americans and redefine African American expression. The movement …showed first 75 words of 1164 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1164 total…not a school, nor did the writers associated with it share a common purpose, as was the case with Locke and Dubois, nevertheless they had a common bond: they dealt with African American life from an African American perspective. The Harlem Renaissance transformed African-American identity and history, but it also transformed American culture in general. Never before had so many Americans read the thoughts of African-Americans and embraced the African-American community's productions, expressions, and style.
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