Interdisciplinary Quarterly

by Kristin K. Newman

During the time period between World War I and the stock market crash of 1929, Americans in the northern section of this country witnessed an influx of immigration from the southern states, as more than 100,000 African-Americans […]

by Brian Fermin

The Harlem Renaissance can be attributed to the “desire of African Americans to produce a distinctive black American culture within the larger national culture” (Mays 1031). The poetry of […]

by Tamedra Fuller

The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most influential times in American history for shedding light on the problematic issues and injustices that African Americans endured during the 20th century, specifically in the 1920s after World War I […]

by Ciera Forestt

The Harlem Renaissance began a literary movement that opened the eyes of many white Americans to what life was truly like for African Americans. The Harlem Renaissance sparked a connection between white and black […]

by Sandra Huber

The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic outburst of African American culture focused in Harlem, New York, that started in the early 1920s. The influence of African American poets was one of the most significant characteristics of this period. […]

by Shada Parker

Humans have the tendency to incline to positivity over negativity; this is a human trait. The human prejudice for positivity influences different types of subjects and is evident in how literary critics and historians depict the Harlem […]

Our most recent IQ offers student perspectives on one of America’s most important interdisciplinary arts movements: The Harlem Renaissance! Points of departure include the Great Migration, First World War, Summer of 1919, Jazz Age, Cotton Club, Crisis Magazine, James Weldon Johnson, WEB Dubois, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Langston […]