1. Race in Cane by Jean Toomer
A brief introduction to the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance is a literary movement also known as "New Negro Movement" or "Negro Renaissance". The literary roots can be traced by writers like Charles W. ... Sterling Brown, a participant of the Renaissance, even denied the Renaissance being a literary movement. ... These older men were for example, W. ... Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ...
This is an example of selective processing, which Angelou referred to with the first two lines of the poem. ... The first stanza dealt with the attitudes to African-Americans from a general historical perspective over the course of many centuries (and the literary recordings of history that came with it). ...