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Harlem Renaissance (US)

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

1920s–30s African American cultural movement centered in Harlem

Detailed Definition
The Harlem Renaissance (c.1918–1937) was a flourishing of African American arts in New York City, where poets like Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay blended vernacular speech, jazz rhythms, folk traditions, and political consciousness to assert Black identity, challenge racism, and redefine American modernism.
Example
Example in poetry:
Harlem Renaissance (US): Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”: “I’ve known rivers ancient as the world…”—celebrating Black heritage and resilience.
Additional Notes
1920s-30s African American cultural movement in New York. Hughes, Cullen, McKay. Jazz influence, racial pride. Related: modernism, African American poetry. Study: New Negro movement context.
Also Known As
African American Renaissance New Negro Movement Black cultural revival Jazz Age poetry
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