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Question: What was the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance? Why, how, and with what consequences did it develop? Why is it historically important?

Why do you think African Americans would need their own national anthem? Given its widespread and immense popularity among African Americans, how do you see the Negro national anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing" functioning for African Americans over time, from the Harlem Renaissance until today?

Issues of African American self-definition and identity were fundamental to the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance. What light do these documents shed on the multiple and cross- cutting national, racial, class, gender, and sexual identifications of African Americans at the time?

The Great Depression eventually curtailed the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, but the cultural wing of the African American freedom struggle, as represented here by that renaissance, continued. How do you explain the enduring impact of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance particularly and African American cultural struggle generally?

As evidenced by the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, what were the connections among the various domains of the African American freedom struggle - notably the economic, political, social, and cultural domains? What do you see as the meanings and consequences of those connections?

Do you know of any specific ways in which the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance has affected not just African American cultural history since the renaissance but American cultural history in general and even global cultural history since then?

What significance does the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance have for our current cultural and historical moment?