American Literature / Unit 13 AML 1211 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
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The idea
In this essay of nineteen twenty-six Hughes writes that the younger Black artists intend to express their individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame, that if white people are pleased they are glad, and that if they are not it does not matter.
In practice
Without fear or shame.
Where people slip
The essay answers Black critics as well as white ones.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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