Hour two focuses on the years of the Harlem Renaissance. Female blues singers bring their southern sounds north and a flourishing African-American arts scene in New York City creates widespread interest in black culture. When community leaders like W.E.B. Du Bois see the possibility of employing art in the struggle for racial justice, conflicts emerge over just what that art should express. Some African Americans argue that art must present blacks in the best possible light. Young writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston want their work to reflect the real-life experiences, complexities, and culture of black communities. Many white patrons, on the other hand, wrongly see African-American art as simply an expression of exotic primitivism