Question

The Harlem Renaissance: a. Describes the quest by writers like Claude McKay to locate the roots of the black experience. B. Has often been compared to twenty-first century “gentrification� efforts in the urban Northeast. C. Marked a turning point in race relations in America. D. Did not begin until the end of the 1920s. E. Was a phrase coined by Winston Churchill.

Answer 1

The correct answer is option (a). The Harlem Renaissance is also known as "New Negro Movement" (named after the anthology of Allain Locke). This movement took place in Harlem, New York, between 1920 and 1930 and it was an intellectual, artistic and social explosion that served so that artists like Claude McKay could locate the roots of the black experience. In his works McKay rendered the African cultural inheritance being one of his most representative masterpieces "If We Must Die" published in 1919