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This 4 page paper discusses Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too, Sing America” and argues that it presents two view of the black experience: the past and the future. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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poem "I, Too, Sing America," and argues that it can be seen as an illustration of the two possible futures for black America: one of despair and one of hope.
Discussion The Harlem Renaissance was named for Harlem, the section of New York City where it began, and was originally called the "New Negro Movement" (Rowen and Brunner). It was
an intellectual and literary flowering "that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s" (Rowen and Brunner). At that time, racism was rampant and economic opportunities for
African-Americans were rare, leaving creative expression as one of the few paths to success for blacks in the early 20th century (Rowen and Brunner). The Renaissance is considered chiefly a
literary phenomenon, as the development of jazz is usually thought of as a separate movement; even so, it was of huge significance and according to critic Alain Locke, transformed "social
disillusionment to race price" (Rowen and Brunner). It was what Locke calls a "spiritual coming of age" for African-Americans, giving the black community its "first chances for group expression and
self determination" (Rowen and Brunner). The Renaissance came on the heels of a great movement of blacks from the post-Civil War South to the more tolerant cities of the north,
where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a million blacks left the South between 1920 and 1930, most moving to Northern urban areas, and
over 175,000 coming to the Harlem section of Manhattan, "turning the neighborhood into the largest concentration of black people in the world" (Rowen and Brunner). Black-owned businesses, particularly magazines and
newspaper, did very well, and freed African-Americans from "the constricting influences of mainstream white society" (Rowen and Brunner). Among the writers whose careers were launched at the time were Arna
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