Harlem Renaissance

English

Proper noun

the Harlem Renaissance

1. (historical) An intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, and literature centered in Harlem, Manhattan, in the 1920s and 1930s.

   Synonym: (contemporary) New Negro Movement

   • 1995, Nathan Irvin Huggins, Voices from the Harlem Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10:

     The Depression made the Harlem Renaissance, with its spirit of play and optimism, seem strange and naïve.

Hypernyms

• Renaissance

Further reading

• Harlem Renaissance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia