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The Harlem Renaissance Abel and Molly

Key Aspects of the Movement Overt Racial Pride, idea of the “New Negro” Variation: Modernism to jazz poetry, High- culture/low-culture Common Themes: Slavery and it’s influence on the black American experience Effects of racism How to portray black life to white American audiences

Claude McKay (1889-1948) Jamaican-born Enrolled at Tuskegee, then Kansas State Went to Harlem Left-wing, influenced Richard Wright Developed candid style that focused on depiction of authentic blackness

Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981) Grew up on Native American Reservation in Nevada Poet, Writer, graphic artist Wrote for The Opportunity Used column to spread news and highlight other writers Contributed sense of racial pride

Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Very little known about biographical information Wrote in classical style “If the aim of the Harlem Renaissance was in part the reinvention of the native born Negro as a being who can be assimilated while decidedly retaining something called a racial self consciousness, Cullen fit the bill” Wrote predominately “Raceless poetry”