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The Harlem Renaissance can be considered on of the most significant events in African-American literature and culture in the twentieth century. While its most obvious manifestation was as a self-conscious literary movement, it also touched almost every aspect of African-American culture and intellectual life in the period from World War I to the Great Depression: it’s impact redefined black music, theater, and visual arts; it reflected a new more militant political and racial consciousness …

…work, the man. There is a difference between racial thought and feeling: what the professors, the ministers, the physicians, the social workers think, the domestics, the porters, the dock hands, the factory girls, and the streetwalkers feel- feel in a great tide that pours over into song and shout, prayer and cursing, laughter and tears. More than any other writer of his race, Langston Hughes has been swept with this tide of feeling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**