LANGSTON HUGHES AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

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Hughes’ Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance in the 1900’s was one of the most influential black arts’ movements that helped to form a new black cultural identity. The Harlem Renaissance marks its beginning with the ‘Great Migration’: the migration of African Americans from the depressed, rural and southern areas to more industrialized, urban areas in the 1920’s. This Great Migration relocated hundreds of thousands of African Americans to the urban North where they discovered shared common experiences in their past histories and their uncertain present circumstances. Instead of indulging themselves in self-pity, however, the recently dispossessed fuelled an explosion of intelligence that cultivated cultural pride and exploded into newly discovered talents in art, literature, music and intellectual growth. African culture was reborn due to the Harlem renaissance as it reflects the age of the emergence of ‘black’ talent and acceptance into society. Spanning from the 1920s to the mid-1930s,