Take The Harlem Community Of New York For An Example,to Study On The Problem Of American Black City In Early 20^th Century

The urbanization of Black Americans urbanization is an important point to explore the urbanization process in the United States. In the process of urbanization, Black American has double experiences, including the material level and the spiritual level.In the early 20 th century, they not only experienced poverty problems in Harlem, New York, at the physical level, but also had to face a renewal of their own culture. The sufferings of them profoundly both reflect the important social problems in the process of urbanization of United States, especially the racial problems, and provides us an eye to observe the changes of the whole social structure in United States and the adjustment of the black’s social structure.The beginning of the 20 th century is the period of rapid urbanization of the black.Many blacks in the southern United States, because of suffering serious racial discrimination and poverty, left the south and moved to the industrial and commercial city in the north. In contrast, the northern region has a relatively free political and economic environment. Yearning for city life and a desire to change their own destiny,drives this batch of black people pouring into the inner "Promised Land"-- the Harlem, New York. Here, they live up to the reality under the pressure of the society.The white in Harlem also exodus because of their arrival. The poverty of Harlem can be said to be the black impoverishment.Black Americans, however, by constantly settling down in Harlem has its cultural center. "Harlem Renaissance" movement is not only the product of the black American urbanization, but also the change of social structure, especially the symbol of black society that tends to be divided. The movement due to the diversity of American society and culture, but also pregnant the sole of the United States in the social culture, including the whites’ and the black’s.