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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Claude Hopkins movement Harlem Renaissance
Anne Spencer movement Harlem Renaissance
John movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: J. Rosamond Johnson
Rosamond movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: J. Rosamond Johnson
Jessie Redmon Fauset movement Harlem Renaissance
James W. Johnson movement Harlem Renaissance
subject surface form: James Weldon Johnson
Nathan Eugene Toomer movement Harlem Renaissance