“It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.” IndividualityAmerican HistoryCharactersDemographicsAfrican American HistoryHarlem RenaissanceRacial IdentityJazz Age StoriesCharacters In BooksHarlem New YorkAmerican Jazz Age Book:Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance Source: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
“We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era’s creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA.” DiversityAmerican HistoryAfrican AmericansMulticulturalismHarlem RenaissanceJazz AgeGreat MigrationCultural ArtsLiterary MovementsRoaring 20sHarlem New York Book:Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance Source: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance