These aspects can be traced back from the slavery era, and hence use art at a way of teeming with sadness and bitterness. The author believes that Black-Americas utilize these influential songs to utter their artistic potential in its simplest form. According to Daniels, the “civilized” white people owes to the soul-utterances of its black counterpart numerous moments of joy not to recognize ungrudging the considerable fact that what the Black has attained is of great civilizing worth. To the author, Negroes got the same opportunities and education facilities of the whites.2 Criteria of Negro Art The above topic presents work done by Du Bois. The author explores the value of the artistic potential found in the black people and the manner that it has been absorbed into the American culture.
After minimal schooling, he traveled around Latin America and eventually ended up in England. He embraced the ideas of the Pan African Movement. These ideas were the groundwork for the organization he founded, the UNIA. He attracted working class blacks, who formed a devoted following of the man and his ideas. Both of these leaders, of course, were interested in the betterment of their race, but their different visions in achieving their goals led to a division that became both philosophical and intensely personal.
Philosophers saw it as an opportunity to put African American issues at a place of importance. Some also considered it jus a strategic business opportunity for publishers, theatre producers, and other entrepreneurs during the 1920s and 30s. The most voiced opinion was that of the African Americans who participated in this “New Negro Movement”. Especially the Blacks whose lives were documented, affected, and imitated in the artwork and theatre productions of that time frame. The importance of Harlem as the origin of the renaissance in the visual arts in the 1920s and 30s is highly questionable.
Hughes expresses how black people represent a key part of America’s formation. He argues that Black people are just as deserving as whites to call themselves American. DuBois writes how the blacks as a people have made an impact in the world, giving reference to the great pyramids of Egypt. Both of these writers discuss how blacks are deserving of recognition as a vital part of America’s success. The poem “I Too” shows the blacks as a whole as being a neglected “brother” in a family.
Enters the New Negro, Alaine Locke Alaine Locke’s piece of work “Enters the New Negro” is one of the scholarly works that have garnered a lot of publicity from all corners of the world. In this piece of work, Locke describes a revolutionary time when the African Americans experience a new light of hope to put an end of their past miserable life, a condition that had been heightened by the existence of racial boundaries. The work of this scholar marks an ending of suffering and equal treatment of all American nationalists, whether white of black. The critics of this novel have pointed out that the Locke’s prediction of hope Black Americans was the first leg of a new journey towards salvation of the enslaved African. The feature of Harlem Renaissance used by the author, points out to the long journey of liberation that African Americans had to undergo during their stay in America.
Hughes uses the title Harlem to symbolize the message and refer to the unfulfilled dreams of African Americans lingering that town in his day. In Harlem by Langston Hughes, the author is explaining what happens when a dreams deferred and vaguely illustrates how that can affect a person. The poem paints a picture of what can happen when dreams deferred, and indirectly tells the reader how a dream can take a negative effect on a person. Hughes starts off by asking “what happens to a dream deferred?”, then initially he answers that question using more questions that reflect on what is similar to the experience. Hughes compares a deferred dream to “ a raisin in the sun” due to the fact it was once a healthy purple fruit and is now all shriveled and unattractive to view, he uses “in the sun” to emphasize how to the dreamer feels defeat and the raisin to show further effects.
The Harlem Renaissance was important because it inspired an explosion of cultural pride and perceived as a new beginning for African Americans. Black Americans were inspired to create works rooted in their own culture instead of imitating the styles of white Americans. African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become “The New Negro” a term coined in 1925 by Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), writer and patron of the arts. The following quote by Nathan Huggins (1927-1989), a prominent African American historian and author, reflects the change in attitudes that would help lay the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. “For the Afro-American in
After the emancipation of slavery in the 1800’s, African Americans have struggled to be treated with the same equal rights as Europeans. Even with the laws that were pasted to protect African Americans there were states that ignored and created new laws to overturn the laws to protect African Americans. The ignorant of Europeans who denied African Americans the equal rights the laws stated they deserved. African Americans decided to stand up for themselves by developing non violent protest movement to fight for the equal rights of African Americans. ("Civil Rights Movement") Martin Luther King Jr. became the leader of the non violent protest movement in the 1950’s.The development of Martin Luther King Jr. in this era started when an African American woman named Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
The Harlem Renaissance included more than the emergence of strong black literary voices. Painting, sculpture, music, theater, and dance were affected, too. Painter Aaron Douglas, actor Paul Robeson, dancer Florence Mills, bandleader Duke Ellington, sculptor Richmond Barthe, playwright Willis Richardson, and composer R. Nathaniel Dett were products of, as well as contributors to, the fabric and depth of the movement. These were people during this time period that weren’t afraid to strive and to make a difference in their community by reaching out to individuals. In conclusion, the African American’s during the time will never be forgotten or not acknowledge for their right being.
The Crisis Magazine helped blacks have their literature published for the people to read. “As African American journals such as W.E.B. Du Bois’s Crisis and Opportunity, edited by Charles S. Johnson, began to flourish, it became possible for African American writers to publish in a style that suited their tastes.” (The Harlem Renaissance Gale Group 1). It was a great key to get their work recognized. People were beginning to see how much the black community can contribute.