Comparing Langston Hughes And The Harlem Renaissance

Have you heard of the “Harlem renaissance”? Sounds kind of similar to the European renaissance right? But the Harlem renaissance is a little different. The Harlem Renaissance is a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem around the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. But today we will talk about a specific Person, Langston Hughes. A little background information Mr. Hughes, he was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. With a troubled family that often migrated to different cities like Kansas, Illinois and Cleveland. He started at a young age writing and reciting poems. Later after high school he went to New York to study at Columbia University. While exploring parts of life Hughes also found jobs opportunities. Hughes was publishing poems in journals such as the crisis, the journal for the NAACP, Opportunity and the journal for the Urban League. As a result, even before he returned to Washington, D.C., in late 1924, he had developed a Reputation among black poetry readers in America. He continued to work at menial jobs for a while, but in 1926 he published his first volume of poems, The Weary blues. Soon after, He enrolled at Lincoln University, a predominantly black-school in Pennsylvania.
It showed him committed to Racial themes pride in blackness and in his African
Not without Laughter in 1930 was his first novel. The story deals with an African American boy, Sandy, caught between two worlds and two attitudes. The boy's hardworking, respectability-seeking mother provides a counterpoint to his high-spirited, easy-laughing, footloose father. The mother is oriented to the middle-class values of the white world; the father believes that fun and laughter are the only virtues worth pursuing. Though the boy's character is blurred, Hughes's attention to details that reveal African American culture in America gives the novel