African American Community: Art And The Harlem Renaissance

Historically the appreciation of art has been inconsistent within the African American communities. Social biases have been depicted about the art community, leaving other communities afraid of exposing themselves to the many opportunities that art has to offer. According to the 2008 census of Arts, the U.S. populations were a total of 224.8 million people and of that the African American race made up 25.6 million of that population. Of those in the African American population, only 12 million people were associated with the arts. Long before this census was created the Harlem Renaissance was one of the first and many examples of art portraying a positive impact on the black community. Other positive influences in the black communities included