The Harlem Renaissance Era

Teal Chancellor

Dr. Cynde Gregory

English 1102, Section 40899

21 April 2012

The Harlem Renaissance Era

In New York’s 1920’s, African American culture became redefined as the Harlem Renaissance. It exhibited a mixture of culture that flourished in the arts of music, dance, and poetry. New York Harlem neighborhoods came alive during an era of unequal justice for Negroes. Black cultural industrialized a movement recognized as "The New Negro Movement" and later called the Harlem Renaissance”. (Dorman). Most writings were of veracities, black life, racism, and the slum life of the ghettos with no trades for the black communities.
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However, many consider the Harlem Renaissance relative to African American culture and political affairs movements of time immemorial in black individuality and political activism. Dorman argues “Harlem of the Harlem Renaissance was always a symbolic abstraction that has overwhelmed scholars who have neglected the history of operative individuals who lived in conjunction with the jet set cultural movement. His similes of everyday life in Harlem were vivid and compelling”.…show more content…
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