THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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France
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Africa
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Alaska
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Asia
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Detailed explanation-1: -“A lot of people are not aware of or tend not to pay much attention to the fact that Langston Hughes was a world traveler.” His autobiographies “The Big Sea” (1940) and “I Wonder as I Wander” (1956) are admirable records of his travels throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, Russia and East Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -After Hughes earned a B.A. degree from Lincoln University in 1929, he returned to New York. Except for travels to the Soviet Union and parts of the Caribbean, he lived in Harlem as his primary home for the remainder of his life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes’s creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City’s Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood.
Detailed explanation-4: -As he matured as poet and writer, he started looking beyond America’s borders, curious to learn more about how racism impacted different cultures. Between 1924 and his death in 1967, Hughes made trips to places as varied as Italy, Russia, England, Nigeria and Ghana.