Harlem Renaissance

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African American history event artistic movement cultural movement intellectual movement literary movement

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

Aliases (7)

Harlem Renaissance culture ×2
New Negro movement ×2
Harlem Renaissance (through Zora Neale Hurston) ×1
Harlem Renaissance literature ×1
Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s ×1
New Negro Movement ×1
the Harlem Renaissance ×1

Statements (75)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	African American history event → artistic movement → cultural movement → intellectual movement → literary movement →
alsoKnownAs	New Negro Movement →
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 → mid-1930s →
ethnicFocus	African 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 → 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 →

Referenced by (58)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alain Locke → Archibald Motley → Claude McKay → Color Struck → Countee Cullen → Fire!! (magazine) → I, Too → James Weldon Johnson → Jean Toomer → Josephine Baker → Langston Hughes → Louis Armstrong → Mules and Men → Nella Larsen → Richard Wright → The Negro Speaks of Rivers → The New Negro (anthology) → Wallace Thurman → Zora Neale Hurston →	movement
Cane → Color Struck → Dust Tracks on a Road → Jonah’s Gourd Vine → Montage of a Dream Deferred → Not Without Laughter → Tell My Horse → The Weary Blues → Their Eyes Were Watching God →	literaryMovement
Archibald Motley ("Harlem Renaissance culture") → Black Arts Movement → Chicago Black Renaissance → Wallace Thurman ("Harlem Renaissance culture") →	influencedBy
Apollo Theater → Langston → The Weary Blues ("New Negro movement") →	associatedWith
Eatonville, Florida ("Harlem Renaissance (through Zora Neale Hurston)") → Mulatto →	associatedMovement
Harlem → Harlem →	knownFor
Harlem Renaissance ("New Negro Movement") →	alsoKnownAs
Tea Cake →	authorMovement
Great Migration of African Americans →	effect
African American literature →	emergedSignificantlyDuring
James Weldon Johnson ("Harlem Renaissance literature") →	fieldOfWork
Roaring Twenties →	hasCharacteristic
African American literature →	hasNotableMovement
American literature →	hasPeriod
Harlem →	historicalEvent
Harlem →	historicalPeriod
African-American history →	includesPeriod
Let America Be America Again →	movementContext
Harlem ("Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s") →	notableEvent
Alain Locke ("New Negro movement") →	notableIdea
The Negro Speaks of Rivers →	period
Negrismo →	relatedTo
Roaring Twenties →	significantEvent
Jazz (novel) ("the Harlem Renaissance") →	theme
The New Negro (anthology) →	timePeriod