Harlem Renaissance (1 Sept 1918 Jahr – 1 Sept 1935 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

New York
- popularity of urban African-American culture; the ‘jazz age`
- white patronage
“It was the period in which the Negro was in vogue.” (Langston Hughes)

- surge of creativity in literature, art, music, and intellectual thought
- different kind of segregation: living in ghettos

Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

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