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biographical information   1. About Hughes' life  2. A reading guide to Langston Hughes 3. Langston Hughes' discussion questions 4. Related articles about Langston Hughes from Smithsonian Insitution

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e-texts of essays and poems

 1. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"

 2. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

 3. "The South"

 4. "Mother to Son"

 5. "When Sue Wears Red"

 6. "Jazzonia"

 7. "The Weary Blues"

 8. "Mulatto"

     --summary and analysis

 9. "Spirituals"

10. "Song for a Dark Girl"

11. "The Bitter River"

12. "Dream Boogie"

13. "Harlem [2]"
14. video clip of "The Dream Deferred"

 

Literary Blues:
 
 

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relevant links

  Langston Hughes was one of the writers and artists who helped to revitalize African-American art
  and literature in the 1920s. That group of artists and writers promoted the resurgence of interest
  and enthusiasm for African-American art in what is now called the Harlem Renaissance.
 
 

1. For a good introduction to the Harlem Renaissance.  2. The e-text and an introduction to a 1925 issue of a journal called Survey Graphic     that focussed on the Harlem Renaissance

"Street Life -- Harlem" (ca. 1939-40)  by William H. Johnson, from William H. Johnson's Gallery

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online discussion

Link to Langston Hughes Society
 

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