... identity, and reconciliation of the divided American Negro. Also commonly seen is the alienation from the white race, the use of folk material or oral tradition, and the problems with writing for a white audience (Reuben 2). The Harlem Renaissance wasn't just a literary movement: it included racial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the ... Romantic poets, especially Keats, and often used the traditional sonnet form. After the 1930's, Cullen avoided racial themes all together ("Harlem" 1). In the early 1920s several works signaled the ...

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... Culture Capitols, discusses the occurrence of blacks working to gain inspiration from white culture by traveling to Europe. She explains that Paris was a city "which they felt would provide creative stimuli due both the cities' intrinsic characters and to their famous residents" (72). Also, once artists from Harlem brought European influences back to the United States, black American writers looked ... consciousness: the fact that blacks were trying to mix high and low culture by using the vernacular language in poetry. Langston Hughes, himself, strived to use double consciousness in hi...

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