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Harlem

This place in New York is said to be the place where a renaissance of Negro artistic endeavors occur in the 1920s.

Garveyism

This term is used to describe the ideals and the plan to establish a nation in Africa as seen throughout the section titled the New Negro Radicalism.

The Cotton Club

This is listed as one of the best-known night spots of Harlem as listed in the Urban Setting section.

Ellis Island

This is where those arriving in New York were taken in and examined.

Pop Overton's Barber Shop

This is where Eight-Ball and Dirty Cozzens almost have a fight in Blades of Steel by Fisher.

West Illana

The freighter described by Langston Hughes in Luani of the Jungles.

Jook

This is a word introduced by Zora Neale Hurston in Characteristics of Negro Expression, which means a bawdy house.

Belle Lake

This is where Uncle...

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