Essays on Harlem Renaissance

Introduction The Harlem Renaissance is the name given to the African-American literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that took place in the New York City district of Harlem, which became its centre, spanning the years after World War One to the mid-1930s. It was a notable…

The book The Sleeper Wakes edited by Marcy Knopf shines a bright light on the women’s literature of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance is a time period where there was an increase in the African American population in the north. African American’s migrated north…

Claude McKay – If We Must Die The Harlem Renaissance was a time of new innovation and creation of music, literature, and history for black citizens. Unfortunately the Harlem Renaissance occurred during an inconvenient time in history. The works reflecting from Harlem Renaissance was poetic…

The greatest outburst of arts, music, poetry, literature in order to resist the inequality (racism) from which Black people suffered, led to a movement in the 1920s (which lasted up to the 1940s) called the Harlem Renaissance. This movement is also called the “New Negro…