Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance
Irish, Mexican, and ‘Negro’ renaissances in The Survey , 1919–1929
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12876380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bob Johnson (New College of Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-175 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1740022806000118 |
| OpenAlex | W2129431992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay situates the Harlem Renaissance in a world-historical context by building on the global perspective offered by the architect of that renaissance, Alain Locke. It demonstrates that contemporaries like Locke saw the Harlem Renaissance to be a local episode in a broader phenomenon of racial and national renaissance that included post-war developments in Ireland and Mexico. The core argument is that American progressives found in these renaissances three distinct models for defining the proper relationship between race and nation: in the Irish case, a racially homogeneous nation-state premised on a repudiation of the colonizer and his culture; in the Mexican case, a syncretic nation-state based on the cultural and biological fusion of the colonizer and colonized; and in the Harlem case, a pluralist nationstate that held in balance otherwise relatively autonomous races
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art history · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Harlem Renaissance · Irish · Performance art · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · State (computer science · The Renaissance · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2019 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |