Who Is Zora Neale Hurston´s Harlem Renaissance?

The Harlem Renaissance was a time during the roaring twenties when african american arts, and music became extremely popular in the country and was centralized in New York, Harlem. Zora Neale Hurston was a notable writer during this period, creating works that included the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God and the essay “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.”Hurston’s style both adheres to and departs from Harlem Renaissance values because of her usages of dialect that was apart of the new african american culture developing at the time, she shows the development of the “ New Negro “ through the eyes of janie furthermore, how she develops an identity during her travels with Janie’s Husbands Joe and Tea Cake. In the early Nineteen Twenties
most of the african american population lived in the southern United States with segregation and jim crow laws giving many families the threat for danger from acts of lynching, and other horrible mistreatments. The south wasn't as profitable for most people of this time… the soil had worn out from over 100 years of farming and the mass population of african americans wanted a higher income level to support their families. Up in the Northern united states factories and businesses wanted as many workers as possible because of the massive amount of white men fighting in WWI leaving many factory jobs open. A massive five hundred thousand african americans migrated north looking for higher wages and better income than what was coming in on their farms. Many went north to seek wages but in hotspots like in Harlem, New York a huge explosion of african american Culture sprouted, with the values of new identity, certain dialect they spoke, and a new culture forming in the country