I Am a White Woman I am a white woman the sound of my speech some distant crescendo of laughs is written in a minor key and I can be heard laughing in the light Can be heard […]
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Langston Hughes: The Racial Mountain and the Racial River
Within Langston Hughes’s essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Hughes confronts the divisive question of Negro artists’ aesthetics during the Harlem Renaissance. There were two main camps in terms of content and portrayal of the Negro. Hughes was in the faction that believed the artist had the right to depict Negroes in both […]