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 Harlem Renaissance
surface form: New Negro Movement
causeOf increased recognition of African American culture in mainstream American society
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endedBy economic impact of the Great Depression
endTime Great Depression
surface form: Great Depression era

mid-1930s
ethnicFocus Black Americans
surface form: 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 movement
surface form: Black feminist thought

Black theater in the United States
American civil rights movement
surface form: Civil Rights Movement

jazz
influencedBy Great Migration of African Americans out of the region
surface form: Great Migration

The New Negro (anthology)
surface form: New Negro movement ideology

World War I
location Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan
surface form: Harlem, New York City

New York
New York City
mainPeriod 1920s
notablePerson Horace Pippin
surface form: 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

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers movement Harlem Renaissance
The Negro Speaks of Rivers period Harlem Renaissance
Not Without Laughter literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
I, Too movement Harlem Renaissance
Harlem knownFor Harlem Renaissance
Harlem historicalEvent Harlem Renaissance
Richard Wright movement Harlem Renaissance
African-American history includesPeriod Harlem Renaissance
Joe Trace settingOfActivity Harlem Renaissance
Violet Trace timePeriod Harlem Renaissance
Toni Morrison trilogy on American history setDuring Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Jazz
Jacob Lawrence movement Harlem Renaissance
Ain't Misbehavin' era Harlem Renaissance
Lenox Avenue knownFor Harlem Renaissance
Lenox Avenue historicalPeriod Harlem Renaissance
South Side Writers Group movement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: African American literary renaissance
South Side Writers Group influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
Margaret Walker influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance writers
Dusk of Dawn literaryPeriod Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance era
Black Star Line historicalPeriod Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance era
Arna Bontemps movement Harlem Renaissance
Villa Lewaro associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
Frank Marshall Davis movement Harlem Renaissance
Irene Redfield themeAssociated Harlem Renaissance
Loïs Mailou Jones movement Harlem Renaissance
Ann Petry movement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance (late influence)
A'Lelia Walker associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
Negritude influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
James P. Johnson movement Harlem Renaissance
dramatic section "Kabnis" associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Kabnis
Karintha literaryMovementContext Harlem Renaissance
"Blood-Burning Moon" literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Blood-Burning Moon
"Kabnis" literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Kabnis
Margery Latimer notableRelation Harlem Renaissance
Porgy (novel) literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Nellallitea Larsen movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Nella Larsen
Nellallitea notableFor Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance literature
Nellallitea movement Harlem Renaissance
Nellallitea partOf Harlem Renaissance
Quicksand literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
The Wrong Man literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Sanctuary literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Quicksand (1928) literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Passing (1929) literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Motley movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Archibald Motley
Nightlife movement Harlem Renaissance
Black Belt movement Harlem Renaissance
Barbecue movement Harlem Renaissance
The Octoroon Girl movement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance era
Brown Girl After the Bath movement Harlem Renaissance