In most literary movements, the question is whether the movement affected the nation or whether the nation affected the movement, but in the case of the Harlem Renaissance that question cannot be answered because the answer is not clear. The Harlem Renaissance both affected the nation and was affected by the nation.
During the early twentieth century, the time of the Harlem Renaissance, the political scene was in disarray. There were two major political ideologies that influenced the spark of the Harlem Renaissance, Marxism and Nationalism. …
