Harlem Renaissance: Politics, Poetics, and Praxis in the African and African American Contexts

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Title:	Harlem Renaissance: Politics, Poetics, and Praxis in the African and African American Contexts
Author:	Amin, Larry
Description:	The 1920s in American history saw a political movement through the Harlem Renaissance. This literary movement gave itself the task of promoting black cultural values that were underestimated in American culture. In search for civil rights for African Americans under the intellectual leadership of W.E.B Du Bois and other N.A.A.C.P members, the Harlem Renaissance succeeded in wresting the black community’s confidence from Booker T. Washington, who thought the solution to black problems should absolutely be integrationist. Because integration meant limited education and discrimination, Du Bois advocated the right of African Americans to higher education for the fulfillment of their political duties that the Constitution has assigned them. Starting from a theoretical approach to racial problems in his early books, Du Bois practically intervened in the concretization of Pan-Africanism. This project remains a political challenge to the black Diaspora to build a stronger cultural entity against imperialism today.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1180021663 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/15998
Date:	2007

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