{"id":9867,"date":"2024-02-15T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2024-02-14T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:40:54","slug":"black-caribbeans-in-the-harlem-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/black-caribbeans-in-the-harlem-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caribbeans in the Harlem Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>February is Black History Month in the United States and a huge focus of this month in high school and college classrooms is the Harlem Renaissance. Did you know that a significant number of influential people within this movement had Afro-Caribbean roots? For an overview, JSTOR has an article entitled, &#8220;<a id=\"OWA82a0d565-26d5-c2aa-af8e-b98f711c58ca\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/black-caribbeans-in-the-harlem-renaissance\/\" href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/black-caribbeans-in-the-harlem-renaissance\/\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Black Caribbeans in the Harlem Renaissance<\/a>.&#8221; Below you will find some highlighted individuals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a id=\"OWA08592ed3-3d7c-8220-5db8-9dbf41c29086\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/great-blues-singer-gladys-bentley-broke-rules-180971708\/?utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=291598797&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ZyYqwO8b6f45NaWes_d0CINhcrDWope8oDEdZqFJRboDIz35QGlB3Op_V4zVHACzH3UBFsVdVedBUj0uKIzRh9HUabWs4LdxMh6joXhNOLJfDLtw&amp;utm_content=291598797&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smithsonian-institution\/great-blues-singer-gladys-bentley-broke-rules-180971708\/?utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=291598797&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ZyYqwO8b6f45NaWes_d0CINhcrDWope8oDEdZqFJRboDIz35QGlB3Op_V4zVHACzH3UBFsVdVedBUj0uKIzRh9HUabWs4LdxMh6joXhNOLJfDLtw&amp;utm_content=291598797&amp;utm_source=hs_email\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Gladys Bentley<\/a>, an unapologetically queer blues artist of Trinidadian descent<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a id=\"OWAb55eabbc-e8f4-470a-c8f0-0afcc100600f\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/claude-mckay\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/claude-mckay\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Claude McKay<\/a>, Jamaican-American author and poet<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a id=\"OWAb01f9ff3-629a-9e3f-8444-021ecf760814\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/schomburg-the-man-who-built-a-library\/\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/clacs\/schomburg-the-man-who-built-a-library\/\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Arturo Schomburg<\/a>, Puerto Rican writer, activist, and historian<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a id=\"OWAf019737a-12bd-2f82-79ff-0fee68e161ed\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/alg.manifoldapp.org\/read\/great-works-of-african-american-literature\/section\/2d7efc6d-6c23-4e49-b068-7c617ee0475e\" href=\"https:\/\/alg.manifoldapp.org\/read\/great-works-of-african-american-literature\/section\/2d7efc6d-6c23-4e49-b068-7c617ee0475e\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Wilfred A. Domingo<\/a>, Jamaican activist and journalist<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a id=\"OWA70581de2-e245-bc48-9f26-7cef3d9194ac\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/findingaids.library.nyu.edu\/tamwag\/tam_354\/\" href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.library.nyu.edu\/tamwag\/tam_354\/\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Hermina Huiswoud<\/a>, Guyanese activist and revolutionary<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a id=\"OWAfed072f0-4f50-efcc-5e74-f9f850ce7246\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theblackarchives.nl\/blog\/a-hidden-history-of-pan-africanism-the-debate-between-garvey-and-huiswoud-is-it-still-relevant\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackarchives.nl\/blog\/a-hidden-history-of-pan-africanism-the-debate-between-garvey-and-huiswoud-is-it-still-relevant\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Otto Huiswoud<\/a>, Surinamese activist and revolutionary (husband of Hermina)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a id=\"OWA1980f53e-c96f-8155-7f37-a7fd1dcc8b78\" class=\"x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/migration-diasporic-self-making-and-madame-de-mena-an-interview-with-courtney-morris\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/migration-diasporic-self-making-and-madame-de-mena-an-interview-with-courtney-morris\/\" data-loopstyle=\"linkonly\" data-auth=\"Verified\">Maymie de Mena<\/a>, UNIA organizer of Martiniquan\u00a0and French Guianese descent<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is Black History Month in the United States and a huge focus of this month in high school and college classrooms is the Harlem Renaissance. 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