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Racism In The Harlem Renaissance

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Racism is a prominent issue or a serious problem in the American society since the beginning and the Americans are still struggling to eradicate this problem from their land. American soil has witnessed civil rights movements concerning this issue in the past. However in 1920, a movement got initiated to promote black identity known as Harlem Renaissance. It was also a fine arts movement that led to an increase in black confidence, literacy rate, and black culture. Writers wrote about their roots and the current society. Most of the movement took place near Harlem and was led by the middle class educated blacks. Civil rights movement began in somewhere near the 1960’s. Both these movements involved the black community however through different …show more content…

Some prominent authors came up on front to express their thoughts about the racial injustice in American and they did this through their writing skills. Claude McKay was one of them. His work extended from vernacular verse commending worker life in Jamaica to lyrics testing white specialist in America, and from by and large direct stories of black life in both Jamaica and America to all the more rationally goal-oriented fiction tending to instinctual/scholarly duality, which McKay discovered key to the black person 's endeavors to adapt in a supremacist society. Steady in his different compositions is his hate for prejudice and the feeling that dogmatism 's certain idiocy renders its followers pitiable and in addition evil. However, having safeguarded his vision as artist and his status as a person, he can rise above severity. In observing ... the criticalness of the Negro for humankind all in all, he is without a moment 's delay challenging as a Negro and expressing a weep for the race of humankind as an individual from that race. His human pity was the establishment that made this conceivable. McKay approach towards racism was aggressive and militant.
One of the most celebrated work of Claude McKay was his poem “If we must die”, which Mckay penned in 1919 at a time when serious racial riots were occurring in the US involving white assaulting black people. McKay wrote this poem in response to these riots which took lives of many black

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