... The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.") Their writing also defined the African American heritage and celebrated their new identity as Americans. Some common themes did exist however, such as an interest in the roots of the African American experience in Africa and in the South, and a strong sense of racial pride and a desire for social and political equality. But the greatest charcteristic of the Harlem Renaissance was the ... and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid." His essays also proposed "smashing" all the social and racial impediments that hindered bla...

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... , Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and the list goes on to include newer African American authors and scholars such as Cornell West, Toni Morrison and Nikki Giovanni. All of these novelists, playwrights and poets have created a historical journey in their literature with all the trials, tribulations, discriminations, murders, accomplishments and pride of African Americans throughout their life whether it was ... of fiction is considered to be Charles Wadell Chesnutt. His first book, The Conjure Woman published in 1899 was writt...

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