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    The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural‚ artistic‚ and social period of creation and new modes of thought. Jazz‚ a new type of music swept the streets of New York City in the 1920’s. Every jazz artist has taken the style and made it their own over the years and added onto the legacy of what jazz is. Today‚ jazz is not only still its own popular entity‚ but nearly all modern music can trace some part of itself back to jazz. Ninety percent of the African-American Population lived in the south after

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    Assignment 2: Project Paper: Harlem Renaissance Poets Karron Scott Prof. Josiah Harry HUM 112: World Cultures II 11/27/2012 The Harlem Renaissance was a wonderful allotment of advancement for the black poets and writers of the 1920s and early ‘30s. I see the Harlem Renaissance as a time where people gather together and express their work throughout the world for everyone to see the brilliance and talent the black descendants harness. The two authors I picked were W.E.B Du Bois and Langston

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    the Harlem Renaissance Colette 106977 English 104 College of New Caledonia – Quesnel Campus Danielle Sarandon 7 February 2014 The Harlem Renaissance was the revival for African Americans in providing capability of expression through literature‚ music‚ art and poetry. This period in the 1920’s was the engine that drove black creativity to display the interpretations of their culture and to supply hope for a true identity. Many works that came from Harlem addressed

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    A Story in Harlem Slang

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    Kristina Medina English ½ 10/26/12 So you think you have game "It must be Jelly‚ ’cause jam don’t shake”‚ A Story in Harlem Slang‚ by Zora Neale Hurston. Sweet Back and Jelly are two wanna-be pimps that are lost in a world full of wants just struggling to get by. Though Jelly and Sweet Back claim they have game‚ the woman that walks by‚ schools them both‚ yet she is not the one with the most game. Jelly and Sweet Back do have some game they both assume that they are better than one another

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    The Harlem Renaissance remains one of the most momentous creative movements in American history‚ exceeding its original importance to one specific interest group and hence cannot be looked upon simply as a convenient metaphor. This essay will show that in addition to the eruption of creativity‚ the Harlem Renaissance should be acknowledged for its significant contribution to changing the self-perception of the Negro in America in such a positive and significant way that eventually transformed the

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    Harlem In The 1920's

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    other hand‚ African Americans created these new societies with the development of Harlem. New york was the 2nd most segregated city and this lead to black living in congested areas one of which being Harlem. Harlem was overpopulated with African American living in the city this lead to the concept of blacks being whites due to the fact that there were more black people in the area than whites‚ which made the minority. Harlem allowed for two types of African Americans to emerge. The first type of blacks

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    this country. This can be seen in many dance forms created and altered in the United States. One company in particular that draws many references to the African esthetics of dance‚ as well as historical events is The Dance Theatre of Harlem. The Dance Theatre of Harlem is the first African American classical ballet

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    Topic: The Harlem Renaissance Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the 3 major advancements made to society as a . result of the Harlem Renaissance. Thesis Statement: The 3 major advancements were made in art‚ music and literature Introduction Attention Material: Music Thesis Statement: The 3 major advancements were made in art‚ music and literature Preview: The Harlem Renaissance was an important time period in African American History.

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    The Harlem Renaissance was a time in which African Americans had an intellectual and inventive movement that thrived with the twentieth century. The Harlem renaissance contribution was based on the influential events of the “New Negro Movement” extended throughout the world. After the Civil War‚ a great number of people migrated to urban areas. Areas like these were such as Chicago or in New York City. This is where a different way of life developed for African Americans. (Fiero‚ pages 100-101).

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    was referred to as the Harlem Renaissance. African Americans thrived in music‚ theatre‚ dance‚ literature‚ education‚ and art during this time period. The cause of the Harlem Renaissance included an important migration where thousands of African American people relocated to urban areas primarily up North. With many rural southerners moving up north‚ they had an opportunity to achieve more things and be influenced by several insightful African Americans. During the Harlem Renaissance‚ the New Negro

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