Question

The Harlem Renaissance: Select one: a. describes the quest by writers like Claude McKay to locate the roots of the black experience. b. was a phrase coined by Winston Churchill. c. marked a turning point in race relations in America. d. did not begin until the end of the 1920s. e. has often been compared to twenty-first century "gentrification" efforts in the urban Northeast.

Answer 1

Answer:

Option a  describes the quest by writers like Claude McKay to locate the roots of the black experience.

Explanation:

Harlem Renaissance took place in Harlem neighborhood in New York City from 1918 till 1937. This was a golden time for African American culture manifested in a Western world especially in cultural arts, musics and literature. The representative writers such as Claude McKay at that time sought to locate the roots of the black experience through their literature.  Although the renaissance did not bring the sociopolitical change as expected, it set a stage to represent black culture and experience in the Western world. To certain extent, it also paves way for the civil right movement that took place mainly during 1950s and 1960s to share the equal right in US.  

Answer 2

Answer:

a. describes the quest by writers like Claude McKay to locate the roots of the black experience.

Explanation:

The Harlem Renaissance was a 1920s movement in the arts  and literature that tried to recover the African American heritage. It was an extraordinary explosion of creativity , a true golden age in American culture. The New York neighborhood of Harlem was the cultural mecca of this movement.