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Há 2 dias · Among the notable writers were Claude McKay, author of Home to Harlem (1928); Langston Hughes, known as “the poet laureate of Harlem”; and Zora Neale Hurston, who celebrated Black culture of the rural South.
Há 2 dias · Both explored characters of mixed racial heritage who struggled to define their racial identity in a world of prejudice and racism. Langston Hughes addressed similar themes in his poem "Cross," and in his 1931 play, Mulatto, as did Jessie Fauset in her 1929 novel, Plum Bun.
6 de mai. de 2024 · Langston Hughes captured the dilemma in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” his 1925 manifesto for younger black writers: We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame.
Há 2 dias · For the African American artist Faith Ringgold, who passed away last month in her New Jersey home at the age of 93, some of her canonical artworks were a visual indictment of American racism. Startling and pressing, Ringgold’s series ‘American People’ (1963–67) is a poignant commentary on the country’s pathological attachment to violence.
Há 1 dia · Posting on social media against racism will cause a backlash. Silence is often a sign of fear. White people are afraid they will face backlash from their White peers as well as Black people. Still ...
It’s up to you to find the strength within yourself.” After struggling to be the dead weight and downward force in another’s mind your entire life they fall when at your lowest. Strength is something nihilistic spirits truly lack, and they are pyrrhic in their pointless endeavors.
Há 2 dias · To poet Langston Hughes, who wrote "I, too, sing America", Whitman was a literary hero. Whitman's vagabond lifestyle was adopted by the Beat movement and its leaders such as Allen Ginsberg [184] and Jack Kerouac in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as anti-war poets such as Adrienne Rich , Alicia Ostriker , and Gary Snyder . [185]
