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 * The social, cultural and artistic explosion known as the Harlem Renaissance was the first time in American history that a large body of work was contributed to American literature by African Americans. Countee Cullen was at the epicenter of this new-found surge in literature. Cullen considered poetry to be raceless. However, his poem "The Black Christ" took on a racial theme which analyzed a black youth convicted of a crime he did not commit. "But shortly after in the early 1930's, his work was almost completely [free] of racial subject matter. His poetry instead focused on idyllic beauty and other classic romantic subjects."
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 * 17. Jaynes, Gerald (2005). "Cullen, Countee" Encyclopedia of African American Society. Thousand Oaks, California 91320: SAGE. p. 241. ISBN 0-7619-2764-6.