HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Authors : Zeki EDİS, Mehmet BİLEM

Pages : 35-53

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Publication Date : 2019-06-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Harlem Renaissance is an era of which the black American race is proud at most. Beginning in the 1920s and ending towards 1930s, the movement was known as the New Negro Movement at the time. Having been frustrated and forced to isolation under Jim Crow segregation the New Negro intellectuals gathered in Harlem. The works they produced had a distinguished aspect different from the previous black art and culture. They were products of black minds and highlighted the black culture with a racial awareness. The black artists of the Renaissance did not feel an obligation to be welcome by their white counterparts, yet in contrary they were boasted of their black side and attached a special importance to being both black and American. They were relatively more radical compared to the old Negro mentality who sought for a passive integration of the black race into the American nation. The main point discussed in this article is the extent of success reached in their quest of being original and black. The article puts forth both the aspects to be proud of and the negative sides that halted the progress of the black race towards the civil rights acquisition and equality. 
Keywords : Harlem Renaissance, African American History, Black Literature