Essay On African American Culture In The 1920s

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Culture In the 1920’s
Music, pop culture, and fads were all a part of how African Americans expressed their culture in the Harlem Renaissance. For many centuries African Americans endured constant whippings and beatings as they were slaves. As slavery came to an end the African American culture thought it was time for a celebration. As they moved from the South to the North, they began to make new African American traditions and also still glorify the old ones. As African Americans started to produce music such as jazz, the music was drawing whites to come pay money to get into clubs so they could watch and dance to this new genre of music. By the African Americans started producing all kinds of art it helped the white people understand their …show more content…

In an article from history its talks about how the black culture was become more involved. In this article it says, “ Locke’s “New Negro” transformed “social disillusionment to race pride.” During this time the African American people took much pride in their culture. They felt that they should make their music and writings into the way they talked. They did not want to feel like they were having to be set on standards such as the whites thought they should. Again in the same article it keeps talking about the same thing. It says, “Langston Hughes put it, the “Expression of our individual dark-skinned selves.” They were finally sticking up for themselves and they wanted to express how they were equally important as the …show more content…

The flappers were the girls who would smoke, drink, dance, and vote, In a description of flappers it says, “Flappers broke away conservative image of womanhood that prevailed at the time.” Women had this new freedom to do pretty much as they pleased. Another fad in the 1920’s were the rise of gamblers. As the years went on, the unemployment rate went up. In the same article it says, “People unable to make a decent living looked towards any means to ass to their income.” Even though this was a bad thing to do, they felt like they needed to make a living from something. It just so happened they chose this way to make some

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