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White Influences of the Harlem Renaissance

 

Therefore, they wanted to stand up and expressed their thoughts. So, it caused the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.
             In our mind, Harlem Renaissance was considered to be the revival of the African-American culture and also the role of whites were never mentioned. Many people may think there only the negative responses of whites in the Harlem Renaissance because according to Claude Mckay who was one of the most important poets and writers in the Harlem Renaissance, his poems If We Must Die and America both illustrated the negatives responses and whites in that time. However, in fact the whites' roles in the Harlem Renaissance are very important and it is very sensitive topic and has been avoid by black critics all the time.
             So how whites got attentions for the Harlem Renaissance? According to another important historical context, blacks were immigrant from the South. The great migration greatly expanded black communities in the North, creating a greater market for black culture of black entertainments and the migrants were played in the nightclubs and hotspots of Harlem. At the same time, whites were becoming fascinated by black culture increasingly. A number of white artists and patrons began to view blacks and black culture less condescendingly, and began to offer "mainstream" publishers and art venues. From the article The Caucasian storms Harlem written by Rdolph Fisher, and stated "the best of Harlem's black cabarets have changed their names and turned white" and found himself was the only Negro in that club" (Fisher 74). No matter what was the main point of Fisher, his article implied that how much the whites liked the black entertainment as becoming the major audience of the nightclub.
             Moreover, not only whites' attention, but also whites' interventions are momentous in the Harlem Renaissance. For example, in the book "Refined Racism: White Patronage in the Harlem Renaissance" stated "At the time of the Harlem Renaissance, that "renaissance" would never have progressed beyond Harlem without the intervention and support of white patrons" (Bruce 1).


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