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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Brown Girl After the Bath movement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: New Negro movement
The Liar movement Harlem Renaissance
The Liar movement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: New Negro movement
Getting’ Religion movement Harlem Renaissance
Saturday Night movement Harlem Renaissance
Negro Art: Past and Present mainSubject Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Negro Renaissance
Negro Art: Past and Present associatedWithMovement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: New Negro Movement
Four Negro Poets literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Four Negro Poets influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: New Negro movement
Four Negro Poets associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: New Negro movement
Four Negro Poets associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
Weldon movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: James Weldon Johnson
God’s Trombones timePeriodOfCreation Harlem Renaissance
God’s Trombones literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
The Book of American Negro Poetry movement Harlem Renaissance
Along This Way (autobiography) subject Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Along This Way
Along This Way (autobiography) literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Along This Way
J. Rosamond Johnson participatedIn Harlem Renaissance
Charles S. Johnson movement Harlem Renaissance
Part Two: Hoodoo literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
"Dream Variations" literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Dream Variations
Winold Reiss activeIn Harlem Renaissance
"Dream Variations" section movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Dream Variations (section)
Carl Van Vechten movement Harlem Renaissance
Gwendolyn Bennett movement Harlem Renaissance
Gwendolyn Bennett influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
Aaron Douglas movement Harlem Renaissance
Aaron Douglas influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance writers
Richard Bruce Nugent movement Harlem Renaissance
Richard Bruce Nugent influencedBy Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance culture
Smoke, Lilies and Jade movement Harlem Renaissance
Smoke, Lilies and Jade settingPeriod Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance era
Jessie Fauset movement Harlem Renaissance
The Blacker the Berry literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
The Blacker the Berry settingPeriod Harlem Renaissance
The Blacker the Berry authorMovement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: New Negro movement
Infants of the Spring literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Infants of the Spring literaryPeriod Harlem Renaissance
Infants of the Spring hasSubject Harlem Renaissance
The Interne literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life movement Harlem Renaissance
Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life associatedWith Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: New Negro movement
Festus movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Claude McKay
McKay movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: Claude McKay
Nairne Castle, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica linkedToMovement Harlem Renaissance
this entity surface form: Harlem Renaissance (via Claude McKay)
If We Must Die literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Shadows literaryMovement Harlem Renaissance