Langston Hughes:

“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”

“Mule Bone”

 

“My People,” “The Weary Blues,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Reverie on the Harlem River,” “Harlem Night Song,” “Strange Hurt,” “Mulatto,” “Ku Klux,” “Lunch in a Jim Crow Car,” “The Negro Mother” (all available online)

 

 

 

Secondary reading: “Mule Bone: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston’s Dream Deferred of an African-American Theatre of the Black Word.” African American Review 35.1 (2001): 77-92. Print.

 

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