The Harlem Renaissance was an amazing era in
literary history. The rise of self-expression and self-actualization by the
minority in America was paramount in promoting their humanization; and eventually
giving them a respectful position in society which before; used to consider the
blacks nothing more than in the servile sense.
I learned a lot of the things about the situation
the blacks went through and what they actually felt. It was eye-opening; I
never thought that a simple word could have such an effect on a person as it
did in the poem “The Incident.” The ideal of physical and mental as well as
verbal abuse that the African Americans sustained during the Jim Crow laws is
just heart-rending. I couldn’t believe the inhuman conditions they experienced at
the hands of the whites in America. Yet the powerful way they expressed
themselves was absolutely beautiful and moving. I am glad that the minority
were able to finally break through so many social stigmas when they promoted
and caused the Harlem Renaissance.
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