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The Harlem Renaissance
Abel and Molly
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Key Aspects of the MovementOvert Racial Pride, idea of the “New Negro”
Variation: Modernism to jazz poetry, High-culture/low-culture
Common Themes:Slavery and it’s influence on the black American experienceEffects of racismHow to portray black life to white American audiences
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Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Jamaican-born
Enrolled at Tuskegee, then Kansas State
Went to Harlem
Left-wing, influenced Richard Wright
Developed candid style that focused on depiction of authentic blackness
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Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)
Grew up on Native American Reservation in Nevada
Poet, Writer, graphic artist
Wrote for The Opportunity
Used column to spread news and highlight other writers
Contributed sense of racial pride
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Very little known about biographical information
Wrote in classical style
“If the aim of the Harlem Renaissance was in part the reinvention of the native born Negro as a being who can be assimilated while decidedly retaining something called a racial self consciousness, Cullen fit the bill”
Wrote predominately “Raceless poetry”