Harlem Renaissance

Running head: HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance is an intellectual social movement that took place in the 1920s,
in Harlem, New York. It was essentially known as the Black Movement, or the New Negro
Movement. The name was gained from an anthology that was edited by Alain Locke. The great
migration of the African Americans to the country, after the Great war, and the inter cultural
transmission between the cultural expressions of the African American and the native
Americans, created the impetus for the movement. The movement essentially generated and
spread across the urban space of the country; however, the propensity of the movement was
mostly felt in Harlem, and thus the movement or the social got its name. The movement was
essentially generated by the African Americans of the American Blacks, who were much
influenced by the music and the culture of the country, and tried to create their own space and
their own style of music and culture in the country (Baker, 2013). The renaissance had given the
country a new form and style of music and culture and initiated the rebirth of the African
American arts.
The social movement had taken place after the Civil War, to which the country was
exposed. According to the researchers the civil war had resulted into the enslavement of a huge
number of blacks, and with the end of the civil war, the freed Black Americans were faced with a
news type of situation, that is, striving for the social representation. The freed men were trying to
represent themselves and their group, socially, politically and economically, and the form and the
languages of music, art and literature, provided the men with a way to express themselves and
their grievances and their demands (YouTube, 2019). This had created a situation of unrest
within the society, as the people faced with rigidity and unacceptance, and this further resulted
into an inter cultural transmission within the country.