THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
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What is a possible theme of “The New Negro”?
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Locke points out “Harlem’s significance” along with explaining what it stood for by saying that, “it’s a racial awakening on a national and perhaps even a world scale".
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However, some writers, such as Langston Hughes, sought to give voice to the lower, working class.
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One of the poems, “White Houses” within the anthology represents, the African Americans struggle to confront and challenge the White House and white America.
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The publication of Locke’s anthology coincides with the rise of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the Lost Generation.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -These forces converged to help create the “New Negro Movement” of the 1920s, which promoted a renewed sense of racial pride, cultural self-expression, economic independence, and progressive politics.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harlem Renaissance artists focused on themes such as the influence of slavery, Black identity, community, and the everyday experience of Black people. When the United States entered the Great Depression, the Harlem Renaissance faded.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jarrett: The “new Negro” was a concept of the second half of the 19th century, after the Civil War, when African-Americans were hoping to represent themselves in new, progressive ways, either in the halls of politics or in culture.
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