THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Hughes is encouraging young Black poets to embrace their Black culture instead of trying to emulate white writers.
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Hughes wants people to respect him as if he were a white poet.
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Hughes does not want writers to include vernacular in their writing because he wants to ensure that all of the dialogue sounds educated.
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Hughes wants to popularize works of Black writers to show an Anglo-dominated society that that Black people can be educated too.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hurston’s account demonstrates that the desire to transcend racial categorization may reveal a desire to regain innocence, a desire to practice one’s craft free from the recriminating awareness of, at best, a climate of critical animosity, or, at worst, presumptions of inferiority.
Detailed explanation-2: -In his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926), a key document of the New Negro movement, Hughes wrote, “The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn’t matter.
Detailed explanation-3: -Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes’s creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City’s Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood.