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: New Negro Movement (contemporary)
    Hypernym: Renaissance
    • 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.

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