Harlem Renaissance

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The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing African American cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf African American history event
artistic movement
cultural movement
intellectual movement
literary movement
alsoKnownAs New Negro Movement
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
causeOf increased recognition of African American culture in mainstream American society
country United States
endedBy economic impact of the Great Depression
endTime Great Depression era
linked to: Great Depression

mid-1930s
ethnicFocus African Americans
linked to: Black Americans
field dance
intellectual history
literature
music
political thought
theater
visual arts
hasCentralTheme Black pride
challenge to racism
exploration of African heritage
modern Black identity
racial uplift
hasCharacteristic concentration of Black artists and intellectuals in Harlem
debates over art versus propaganda
experimentation with modernist forms
patronage from white and Black benefactors
use of jazz and blues aesthetics in literature
hasCulturalOrigin African American urban communities
hasPart Harlem Renaissance jazz culture
Harlem Renaissance literature
Harlem Renaissance music
Harlem Renaissance poetry
Harlem Renaissance theater
Harlem Renaissance visual arts
influenced African American literature
African American visual arts
Black feminist thought
Black theater in the United States
Civil Rights Movement
jazz
influencedBy Great Migration
New Negro movement ideology
World War I
location Harlem, New York City
New York
New York City
mainPeriod 1920s
notablePerson Aaron Douglas
linked to: Horace Pippin

Alain Locke
Archibald Motley
Bessie Smith
Billie Holiday
Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
Duke Ellington
James Weldon Johnson
Jean Toomer
Josephine Baker
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Nella Larsen
Paul Robeson
W. E. B. Du Bois
Wallace Thurman
Zora Neale Hurston
notableWork Cane
Color Struck
Fire!! (magazine)
The New Negro (anthology)
The Weary Blues
Their Eyes Were Watching God
startTime 1918
early 1920s

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Roaring Twenties hasCharacteristic Harlem Renaissance
Roaring Twenties significantEvent Harlem Renaissance
American literature hasPeriod Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration of African Americans effect Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance alsoKnownAs New Negro Movement
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Harlem knownFor Harlem Renaissance
Harlem historicalPeriod Harlem Renaissance
Harlem notableEvent Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston movement Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes movement Harlem Renaissance
Black Arts Movement influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
Jazz (novel) theme the Harlem Renaissance
subject linked to: Jazz
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Apollo Theater associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong movement Harlem Renaissance
subject linked to: Pops
Chicago Black Renaissance influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
Let America Be America Again movementContext Harlem Renaissance
Cane literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Jean Toomer movement Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen movement Harlem Renaissance
Archibald Motley movement Harlem Renaissance
Archibald Motley influencedBy Harlem Renaissance culture
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Alain Locke movement Harlem Renaissance
Alain Locke notableIdea New Negro movement
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson movement Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson fieldOfWork Harlem Renaissance literature
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Josephine Baker movement Harlem Renaissance
Eatonville, Florida associatedMovement Harlem Renaissance (through Zora Neale Hurston)
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Jonah’s Gourd Vine literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Dust Tracks on a Road literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Tell My Horse literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Mules and Men movement Harlem Renaissance
The Weary Blues literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
The Weary Blues associatedWith New Negro movement
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Color Struck movement Harlem Renaissance
Color Struck literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Fire!! (magazine) movement Harlem Renaissance
The New Negro (anthology) movement Harlem Renaissance
The New Negro (anthology) timePeriod Harlem Renaissance
Wallace Thurman movement Harlem Renaissance
Wallace Thurman influencedBy Harlem Renaissance culture
linked to: Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen movement Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay movement Harlem Renaissance
Langston associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
Montage of a Dream Deferred literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Mulatto associatedMovement Harlem Renaissance
Tea Cake authorMovement Harlem Renaissance
Negrismo relatedTo Harlem Renaissance