USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Harlem Renaissance was a ____ of African-American culture.
A
Criticism
B
Blossoming
C
Mourning
D
Repression
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic flowering of the “New Negro” movement as its participants celebrated their African heritage and embraced self-expression, rejecting long-standing-and often degrading-stereotypes. Read more about this historic New York neighborhood.

Detailed explanation-2: -Artists associated with the movement asserted pride in black life and identity, a rising consciousness of inequality and discrimination, and interest in the rapidly changing modern world-many experiencing a freedom of expression through the arts for the first time.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Harlem Renaissance was “a flowering of black creativity centered on Harlem, New York, from the early 1920s to the mid-1930s, ” as we explain in Art in Time. “Harlem became a cultural centre partially as a result of the movement of African-Americans from the rural South to northern cities in 1919–26.

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