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This seemingly simple question reveals the complexities of the movement we know varyingly as the New Negro Renaissance, the New Negro Movement, the Negro Renaissance, the Jazz Age, or the Harlem Renaissance. What was the Harlem Renaissance and when did it begin? He is a native Houstonian and a graduate of Rice University and Kansas State University. He has also written extensively on Texas history and is an author of one of the standard Texas history texts, Texas: The Lone Star State. He served as an editor of the Oxford University Press five-volume Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, and the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Routledge). Wintz is an author or editor of numerous books including Harlem Speaks Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance African American Political Thought, 1890–1930 African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House and The Harlem Renaissance in the West.

Wintz is a specialist in the Harlem Renaissance and in African American political thought. Wintz, Distinguished Professor of History at Texas Southern University, opened the workshop with the following lecture titled 'The Harlem Renaissance: What Was It, and Why Does It Matter?' In his remarks, Wintz addresses the origins and nature of the movement-a task, he says, that is far more complex than it may seem. On February 28, 2014, Humanities Texas held a one-day teacher professional development workshop in Austin focusing on the history and literature of the Harlem Renaissance.

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