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The Harlem Renaissance was the African cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Centered in the Harlem neighbored of New York City
marked the first time that mainstream publishers and critics took African American literature seriously.
At frist was a literary movement but soo spread to music, theater, art, and politics.
In literature, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and the fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt in the late 1890s were among the earliest works of African Americans to receive national recognition.
McKay’s volume of poetry, Harlem Shadows (1922), became one of the first works by a black writer to be published by a mainstream, national publisher (Harcourt, Brace and Company).
No common literary style or political ideology defined the Harlem Renaissance. What united participants was their sense of taking part in a common endeavor and their commitment to giving artistic expression to the African American experience.
African American experience in Africa and the American South, and a strong sense of racial pride and desire for social and political equality.
But the most characteristic aspect of the Harlem Renaissance was the diversity of its expression
some 16 black writers published more than 50 volumes of poetry and fiction, while dozens of other African American artists made their mark in painting, music, and theater.

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