Sidney Bremer, a professor of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, mainly discusses the image of home life that American authors portray compared to the reality in which the modern person lives. ... She argues that this is not a realistic image that fits our modern lifestyle. ... Starting just after World War I and ending by the Great Depression, Green says that this movement inspired dance, music, poetry, fashion, and, he jokes, "probably a novelty cocktail" (Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance). ... He also gives examples of many important writers, journa...

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In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. ... " In addition, Bondswomen partook in highly improvised dance and musical performances. In Edward Baptist's book The Half Has Never Been Told, he describes the formation of song circles that would take place during these gatherings, in which women would display their boldness by "dancing down" one man after another in the center. Whether through competitive dance or fashion showcasing, these heterodox behaviors countered the status bra...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... Their collective efforts not only established this new African-American identity, but also contributed to the development of our modern American culture. ... It was by the suggestion of Hawthorne that he traveled to Paris in 1826, where he settled, painted, and studied the works of modern European masters....

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