Jonathan Holloway continues his account of the Harlem Renaissance in this Yale lecture from American History: From Emancipation to the Present. He opens by reading Countee Cullen's poem "Heritage" alongside Gwendolyn Bennett's poem of the same title, using both to frame the movement's romance with an imagined African past. Holloway then traces how Harlem became the self-declared capital of the New Negro Renaissance, drawing thousands of African Americans into a cultural and political scene that outsiders saw as the best black America had to offer. The lecture spends real time on white patrons who financed and consumed Harlem's music, writing, and performance, and on the friction that patronage created between black artists, black intellectuals, and the white audiences fascinated by them. Recorded in 2010, the talk treats the Renaissance as a genuinely contested movement rather than a simple celebration.