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Hace 4 días · The Kennedy Center’s website –Drop Me Off in Harlem, contains “Faces of the Harlem Renaissance” – photos and short biographies of the musicians, artists, actors, dancers, writers, and activists. There is also a large map of Harlem with the names and locations of the famous clubs.
15 de may. de 2024 · 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.
Hace 4 días · The Harlem Renaissance, then, was an African American literary and artistic movement anchored in Harlem, but drawing from, extending to, and influencing African American communities across the country and beyond.
21 de may. de 2024 · Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance is grounded in the dramas occasioned by the Harlem Renaissance, as it is called today, or New Negro Renaissance, as it was called in the 1920s, when it first came into being.
30 de may. de 2024 · Claude McKay was a Jamaican-born American poet and novelist who was a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance. His book Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by a Black American author to that time.
Hace 4 días · Spanning the years from the end of World War I through the Depression, the Harlem Renaissance was an artistic movement which encouraged Black artists, writers, musicians, and philosophers to explore in their works aspects of their racial identity, their culture, and the Black experience in America.
12 de may. de 2024 · The New York Met’s exhibition of Harlem Renaissance art features 160 works, most by black artists, that depict daily life in black communities such as Harlem from the 1920s to 1940s.
