Black authors came forward and challenged the white stereotype after the outbreak of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement of African-Americans that took place in Harlem, New York City. Harlem became the symbolic capital of this movement.

Black authors showed the scope of how blacks were portrayed in history. Authors like Claude McKay, Marlon James, and Jamaica Kincaid are known for their works on cultural representation. Most of their works deal with various voices of Blacks, colonial imperialism, gender, and sexuality.

Writers like Jacobs and Douglass expressed the American’s Black oppression, violence, trauma, and slavery. For his writings on the slavery narrative, Phillips Wheatley, the father of African-American literature, was well recognised.

Apart from slavery and cultural oppression, black authors like Sam Selvon, Louise Bennett, and E.R. Braithwaite wrote about racist immigration laws and the political and economic challenges of immigrants from the Caribbean in post-colonial Britain.

Black literature is expressed in the form of storytelling, through which the black authors helped the world understand the Black’s identity, experiences, suffering, challenges, and triumphs against White stereotypes.

As per the proverb, “Pen is mightier than sword,” the black authors used the path of literature to provoke the thought of independence and freedom. Along with that, they also challenged the White stereotype and promoted cultural awareness.