The Met’s show about Harlem suggests that we have gotten modernism — the big bang of 20th-century art — all wrong and that it was wilder and even more radical than we had known. A whoosh of ...

During the early years of the 20th century, in a Manhattan neighborhood called Harlem, America experienced one of its greatest artistic and intellectual awakenings. Escaping the violent and ...

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift. By the early twentieth century, a large number of Southern blacks had left their birth places for Northern cities ...

This course explores the historical, cultural and literary roots of the early twentieth-century Harlem Renaissance. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and ...