THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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seems inferior, according to his oppressors.
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seems superior, according to his oppressors.
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seems celebrated, according to his oppressors.
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seems equal, according to his oppressors.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker is embarrassed that he is asked to eat in the kitchen.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the poem’s second stanza, the speaker notes that he is forced to “eat in the kitchen / when company comes.” This is an extended metaphor for segregation. It describes the way that white people treat black people and black contributions to American culture.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nobody’ll dare / Say to me / “Eat in the kitchen” (11-13). Hughes imagines the day when whites will no more have the bold courage to show prejudice and blacks will not be denied their places in a nation based only on the shading of their skin.
Detailed explanation-4: -This phrase is saying that a black person’s white master or owner sends him to eat in the kitchen when company comes, as black people were thought to be inferior and uneducated.