The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

Fauset didn’t just discover writers who have since become synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance; she was also one of them. “It’s not only that she discovered these people, but she helped ...

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She edited and published the work of notable Harlem Renaissance writers but was rarely given credit for her role in the artistic movement. Like many others, Fauset’s writing was often dismissed ...

She also hosted writers and artists at her nearby apartment ... style influenced by his studies that would symbolize the Harlem Renaissance. Actor Paul Robeson’s career took off during the ...

The Renaissance Residency reflects the essence of that historical period, focusing on writers of color and the literary movement that was central to the Harlem Renaissance. Artists are the living ...

This conviction was not generally embraced by the generation of Harlem Renaissance writers that followed, but Chesnutt’s work was nevertheless a catalyst for the movement. The Moral Circle ...

This gripping, extraordinary book begins at the start of the Harlem Renaissance in 1919 ... enlists Jessie to find young writers—and she does. She discovers emerging Black writers like Langston ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.