The Harlem Renaissance was a period of artistic creations and different expressions by the blacks that began after WWI. It ended during the period the African Americans experienced the Great Depression and they continued to face segregation and discrimination practices. Soon after World War I great many Negros left the farms and small southern towns to seek a new life in northern cities. One such city was New York where one of the largest black communities in the world firmly established themselves
symbolism of the Liberty Paints factory shows this sense of racial dominance when the narrator works there and the slogan is “Keep America pure with Liberty Paints” (Ellison 192). The idea of covering blackness with white paint shows this dominance. Native Son shows racial dominance with Bigger’s family living in a small apartment with one room for two brothers, a sister, and the mother. While the white people like the Dalton’s that Bigger works for, have these massive houses with nice cars. It is also
order for Wright to have access to H.L. Meckan’s books. After Mr. Falck handed his library card to Richard Wright, Wright chooses to forge a note to get the books. After thinking his note through, “[He] finally wrote what [he] thought would be a foolproof note: Dear Madam: will you please let this nigger boy- [he] used the word ‘nigger’ to make the librarian feel that [he] could not possibly be the author of the note- have some books by H.L Mecken? [He] forged the white man’s name”(Wright 348). This