James Van Der Zee, Garveyite Family, Harlem, 1924, printed 1974, gelatin ... How do visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance explore black identity and ... its literary and performing arts—pioneering figures such as Langston Hughes, ... He defined a modern visual language that represented black Americans in a new light
Since slavery was a big thing during the days where white people decided to treat others as "less human", these artists wanted to illustrate their passion for being as equally human as the white man. The African American men and women who were slaughtered for no reason, now had hope for the future, because of these artists.
