The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance is African- American culture for celebration , artistic. That is known as “New Negro Movement” . African Americans had endured centuries of slavery. apart from the white that had influenced black peoples relationship to their heritage and to each other. They also sought to break free of Victorian moral values and bourgeois shame about aspects of their lives that might, as seen by whites, reinforce racist beliefs. Never dominated by a particular school of thought but rather characterized by intense debate, the movement laid the groundwork for all later African American literature and had an enormous impact on subsequent black and consciousness worldwide. While the renaissance was not confined to the Harlem, New York City. Harlem attracted a remarkable concentration of intellect and talent and served as the symbolic capital of this cultural awakening.
The Harlem Renaissance influenced future generations of black writers, but it was largely ignored by the literary establishment after it waned in the 1930s. With the advent of the civil rights movement, it again acquired wider recognition.