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    The Langston Hughes Effect

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    The Langston Hughes Affect Langston Hughes was deemed the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race‚" a fitting title which the man who fueled the Harlem Renaissance deserved. But what if looking at Hughes within the narrow confines of the perspective that he was a "black poet" does not fully give him credit or fully explain his works? What if one actually stereotypes Hughes and his works by these over-general definitions that causes readers to look at his poetry expecting to see "blackness”? There are

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    Simmel and W.E.B. Du Bois have had a significant influence on important theories and ideas developed in the Social Sciences. Perhaps two of the most relevant and well-known concepts developed by both of these theorists are the concepts of “double consciousness” and “the stranger”. In this paper I will be analyzing both of these pieces of work to draw upon differences and similarities between the two. The similarities I will be elaborating on are the usage of the paradoxical figure‚ which both Simmel

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    1902‚ the author James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin‚ Missouri. He was an accomplished African American poet‚ novelist‚ columnist‚ playwright‚ memoirist‚ and author of short stories. During this time period in the United States‚ African Americans were not treated equally and segregated based on race. When Hughes and his mother moved to Topeka‚ Kansas‚ Langston attended an all-white school near his house instead of an all-black school that was a distance away (Jerison). Langston proved to his peers

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    W.E.B. Du Bois: Double-Consciousness Ashanti Johnson SOC101 Lestine Shedrick October 18‚ 2011 W.E.B. Du Bois (1968-1963) was a huge contributor to sociology through the eyes and experience of an African-American scholar (Vissing‚ 2011). Du Bois was an author‚ activist and student of Black sociology. In his 1897 article‚ Strivings of the Negro People”‚ Du Bois introduced the term “double-consciousness”‚ a concept I believe to be just as relevant in today’s African-American communities

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    A lot of people isn’t familiar with the name of Langston Hughes. Probably just a regular name to most ears. However‚ his name is huge and known to states all over the world. Who is he? What is he known for? What impact did he have om upcoming poets and writers? These are questions that expect an answer along with information we all need to know about this young man and how he became known to the world. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1st‚ 1902. An African American man born in

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    concept of self‚ manifest in race consciousness. This is extremely significant because an African American establishes his identity with other individuals‚ known or unknown‚ on the basis of a similarity of color and features‚ that allowing the individual to be included in groups membership‚ “the subject of his self identity.” After the African Americans began to search for their identity looking through heritage‚ tradition‚ and folk traditions. Langston Hughes to me has been nourishing the black

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    Interpreting Langston Hughes Langston Hughes’ haunting descriptions of the African people’s struggle for freedom paints a lasting image in one’s mind of the price paid for a single strand of freedom and what is meant to this oppressed ethnicity. From the dark whispers of Silhouette to the stern rising words of Democracy‚ Hughes releases his soul in a cry to awaken the African spirit and inspire thought in the reader. Through his selective choice of words Hughes leaves many interpretations open to

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    LANGSTON HUGHES DORIS YAO INTRODUCTION James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1‚ 1902 – May 22‚ 196 7) was an American poet‚ social activist‚ novelist‚ playwright‚ and c olumnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new liter ary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue"‚ which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS • I’ve known

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    SALVATION BY LANGSTON HUGHES James Mercer Langston Hughes began his love of poetry in Cleveland‚ Ohio‚ where he attended High School and published several poems in the school literary magazine. Hughes attended Columbia University until 1921. He left before graduation to work and travel which would lead to the launch of his career with his first publication‚ The Weary Blues. After that he was awarded his Bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University. Hughes became a prominent figure in the Harlem

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    11/20/08 Sociology 444 My Double-Consciousness as an African American College Student Despite the enduring popularity of DuBoisdouble consciousness metaphor‚ Adolph Reed views it as an anachronism rooted in DuBois’s Jim Crow segregationist period and thus deems it not applicable to post-segregation Black America (Shaw 9). Some sociologists‚ however‚ possess a very different outlook on “double consciousness” that affirms its existence and application in the present day. Although

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