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You and your whole race.
Source: Poetry (January 2009).
Biography
Langston Hughes was first recognized as an important literary figure during the 1920s, a period known as the "Harlem Renaissance" because of the number of emerging black writers. Du Bose Heyward wrote in the New York Herald Tribune in 1926: "Langston Hughes, although only twenty-four years old, is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life. . . . It is, however, as . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Social Commentaries, Money & Economics, Race & Ethnicity
SCHOOL / PERIOD Harlem Renaissance
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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