The Harlem Renaissance made for a diverse world in the 1920’s. African American writers, musicians, poets, and intellectuals, initiated a new movement, claiming their cultural identity while also appreciating their African heritage. Negro-Americans of this time focused on uplifting the black race, by changing the depiction of ghetto realism after fleeing the oppressive Southern caste system. Although the intent of this movement was not political, but was “explosive aesthetic”. Negro-Americans wanted to gain equality and civil rights though their contribution to the arts. Black intellectuals were able to create socioeconomic opportunities, which helped influence future artists, also ushering the civil rights movement.
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This book guided the popular vision set by the Talented Tenth. W.E.B Du Bois, CRISIS magazine editor, also advocated this vision. He was able to use CRISIS as a backbone and documentation, to support the “New Negro”. With the financial support of white patrons, Du Bois was able to begin creating socioeconomic opportunities for more Black writers. Writers such as Countee Cullen, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, were able to have their revolutionary pieces published in CRISIS magazine. One of Garvey’s powerful pieces, “The Negro’s Greatest Enemy”, went into extensive detail, exploiting the White man in America and how he tries to obliterate African-American culture. Hurston’s major contribution was when she began using the term “Niggerati”. The term is “a play on the epithet "nigger" and the term "literati," or literary elite.” Hughes also used the term frequently in his writing, as it became more popular. CRISIS was devoted to publishing pieces about women’s suffrage, education, children, labor, and war. CRISIS magazine was an outlet for self-expression in the Black community and gave the dominant race a chance to learn about African culture. It was a literal form of cultural integration. Still, African-American artists like Du Bois believed and said, “[U]ntil the art of the black folk compels recognition they will not be rated as human
The Harlem Renaissance …show more content…
This book guided the popular vision set by the Talented Tenth. W.E.B Du Bois, CRISIS magazine editor, also advocated this vision. He was able to use CRISIS as a backbone and documentation, to support the “New Negro”. With the financial support of white patrons, Du Bois was able to begin creating socioeconomic opportunities for more Black writers. Writers such as Countee Cullen, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, were able to have their revolutionary pieces published in CRISIS magazine. One of Garvey’s powerful pieces, “The Negro’s Greatest Enemy”, went into extensive detail, exploiting the White man in America and how he tries to obliterate African-American culture. Hurston’s major contribution was when she began using the term “Niggerati”. The term is “a play on the epithet "nigger" and the term "literati," or literary elite.” Hughes also used the term frequently in his writing, as it became more popular. CRISIS was devoted to publishing pieces about women’s suffrage, education, children, labor, and war. CRISIS magazine was an outlet for self-expression in the Black community and gave the dominant race a chance to learn about African culture. It was a literal form of cultural integration. Still, African-American artists like Du Bois believed and said, “[U]ntil the art of the black folk compels recognition they will not be rated as human