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A 6 page paper which examines the influence and importance of the Caribbean immigration into Harlem as it involves the Harlem Renaissance. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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coming to some solid sense of community and position in the nation. It was a time when many educated blacks, and many southern blacks, created a very powerful movement in
Harlem and thus changed, in some ways, the image that African Americans had upon the white people of the nation. But, what some people, and perhaps many people, do not
know is that during this time many blacks from the Caribbean were immigrating to the states, and primarily to New York, which added a sort of strength and depth to
the Harlem Renaissance. The following paper examines the Caribbean influence and importance during the Harlem Renaissance. Caribbean Influence in the Harlem Renaissance "Between 1900 and 1930 some 40,000 immigrants
of African descent, most of them from the British-held colonies of the Caribbean, settled in Harlem as it was emerging as a black community in New York City" (Watkins-Owens, 1996;
144). It is interesting to see that not a huge percentage of these immigrants were agricultural workers, meaning a majority of them were educated or possessed labor skills. It is
also interesting to note that many of the African Americans who had come to Harlem were from the South and were likely not nearly as educated or skilled, overall. This
creates a very interesting and intriguing mix of people who were not easily stereotyped as most whites would have assumed. Watkins-Owens (1996) further adds to this in illustrating, and
discussing, how the Caribbean blacks were treated differently by whites once it was known they were Caribbean and not African American. The Caribbean blacks could speak English but they also
spoke Spanish and many were treated as African Americans until it was known they could speak Spanish and thus they were treated essentially the same as any foreigner, not an
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