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During the Harlem Renaissance a new feeling of racial pride emerged in the Black Intelligencia. The Black Intelligencia consisted of African-American writers, poets, philosophers, historians, and artists whose expertise conveyed five central themes according to Sterling Brown, a writer of that time: “1) Africa as a source of race pride, 2) Black American heroes 3) racial political propaganda, 4) the “Black folk” tradition, and 5) candid self-revelation.” Two of the main people responsible for this new consciousness were W.E.…

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