[display_name id=”0″]Dubois goal is to represent what it’s like to be black in America at the beginning of the twentieth century because he is convinced that race is the central problem of the century to come. He states this in his forethought and chapters throughout the collection. He also follows with a loose thematic grouping of the essays to end with. His main idea was to attempt equal rights for the blacks in the south to vote, get a good education, and to be treated with equality and justice.

The Souls of Black Folks
In addition with these enduring concepts, Dubois purpose drive the country’s attempt to assess the progress of the Black race, the obstacles to that progress, and the possibilities for future progress as the nation entered the twentieth century. Du Bois brings together a blend of history, sociological data, poetry, song, and the benefit of his personal experience to propose his vision of how and why color poses such a problem at the turn of the twentieth century. His assertion is unexpected, and the collection continues to provide insight into the ways that the African-American culture is essential to the larger American culture, and how history has made that relationship inherently difficult.
The author’s purposes were to convince white readers of the essential humanity of African Americans and to promote among black readers a new consciousness. Virtually any writer, white or black, writing on race issues during the early decades of the twentieth century would have read and paid tribute to Du Bois and his book, and even in the twenty-first century the book is still regarded as a classic—and its ideas are still debated.

[display_name id=”0″]The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American social thought and culture based in the African-American community forming in Harlem in New York City (USA). This period, extending from roughly 1920 to 1940, was expressed through every cultural medium—visual art, dance, music, theatre, literature, poetry, history and politics. Instead of using direct political means, African-American artists, writers, and musicians employed culture to work for goals of civil rights and equality. Its lasting legacy is that for the first time (and across racial lines), African-American paintings, writings, and jazz became absorbed into mainstream culture. At the time, it was known as the “New N e g r o Movement”, named after an anthology, entitled The New Negro, of notable African-American works, published by philosopher Alain Locke in 1925.W.E.B. DuBois
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald.

[display_name id=”0″]Harlem is a subdivision of New York City located in northern Manhattan bordering on the Harlem and the East river.With the dream of making a better life for themselves, African Americans during 1914-1918 migrated North from the rural South. Harlem was a popular place to settle. As a result of this, Harlem became an sophisticated artistic and literary center. “In his magazine Crisis, W.E.B. Dubois urged racial pride among African Americans, and writers, many living in Harlem, began producing fine original works about African American life. Their work constituted a fresh, new subject that attracted white readers and publishers.”1. Harlem Renaissance (HR) is the name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.2. The notion of “twoness” , a divided awareness of one’s identity, was introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).and the author of the influential book The Souls of Black Folks (1903): “One ever feels his two-ness – an American, an African-American; two souls, two thoughts, twounreconciled stirrings: two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”3. Common themes: alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience.4. HR was more than just a literary movement: it included racial consciousness, “the back to Africa” movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others.Source(s):
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