Discrimination During The Harlem Renaissance

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During the Harlem Renaissance, discrimination was a reality that linked not only colored peoples in real life but was also a theme that linked them in their writings like Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison, Tableau by Countee Cullen, and Incident, also by Cullen. In Battle Royal, the speaker paints the theme of discrimination clearly for his readers from the beginning when his grandfather tells his father to, “…keep up the good fight”, to the end when the speaker was able to overcome it. The first evidence we see of unfair treatment is when the drunken white men begin calling toward the colored men saying, “Let me get at that big nigger!”, and, “Let me get at those black sonsabitches”. It is also clear that the black men were being purposely targeted