Jazz Age The Jazz Age was the time in history where the soulful ness of the East met the American "white" culture. ... Started by African-American intellectuals like Alain Locke, W.E.B. ... Countee Cullen used both African and European images to explore the African roots of black American life. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black rural south to create a brilliant study of race and gender i...

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