Harlem Renasissance

During the Harlem Renaissance a new feeling of racial pride emerged in the Black Intelligential. The Black Intelligential consisted of African-American writers, poets, philosophers, historians, and artists whose expertise conveyed five central themes according to Sterling Brown, a writer of that time: “1) Africa as a source of race pride, 2) Black American heroes 3) racial political propaganda, 4) the “Black folk” tradition, and 5) candid self-revelation.” Two of the main people responsible for this new consciousness were W.E.…

…giving back to the African-American community. Locke advanced this idea further by applying the sentiment of racial pride to arts like writing, painting, poetry, song, dance, etc. which brought artists like Langston Hughes into the public sphere which in turn rose awareness to all of American society, Black and white, about the importance of racial pride. These three men all have contributed immensely to the increase of consciouness of racial pride during the Harlem Renaissance.