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| mulatto langston hughes summary: Hughes: Poems Langston Hughes, 1999-03-23 A collection of poems by the African-American poet Langston Hughes. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Not Without Laughter Langston Hughes, 2008-04-04 Poet Langston Hughes' only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African-American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Ways of White Folks Langston Hughes, 2011-09-07 A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ‘30s. One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but these stories showcase his talent as a lively storyteller. His work blends elements of blues and jazz, speech and song, into a triumphant and wholly original idiom. Stories included in this collection: Cora Unashamed Slave on the Block Home Passing A Good Job Gone Rejuvenation Through Joy The Blues I'm Playing Red-Headed Baby Poor Little Black Fellow Little Dog Berry Mother and Child One Christmas Eve Father and Son |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Weary Blues Langston Hughes, 2022-01-24 Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From The Weary Blues to Dream Variation, Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Big Sea Langston Hughes, 2022-08-01 In The Big Sea, Langston Hughes artfully chronicles his journey from the Midwest to Harlem during the vibrant period of the Harlem Renaissance, blending autobiographical narrative with profound social commentary. Written in a lyrical prose style, the book captures his artistic growth, personal struggles, and encounters with influential figures in the world of literature and jazz. Hughes's reflection on race, identity, and the African American experience is interspersed with rich imagery and poignant anecdotes, making the text not only a memoir but also a timeless exploration of cultural heritage and resilience. Langston Hughes, known for his pioneering contributions to American literature and the Harlem Renaissance, was deeply influenced by his own life experiences, growing up in a racially segregated America. His travels to Paris, where he mingled with expatriate artists, profoundly impacted his worldview and literary voice. Hughes's commitment to using art as a vehicle for social change and cultural expression imbues The Big Sea with a sense of urgency and relevance that resonates with readers from all backgrounds. This remarkable memoir is recommended for anyone seeking an understanding of the socio-cultural landscape of early 20th-century America, as well as those interested in the intersections of race, art, and identity. Hughes's insightful reflections and eloquent prose offer both historical context and personal depth, making The Big Sea an essential read for lovers of literature and advocates of social justice. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Mule-Bone Zora Neale Hurston, 2022-05-17 This story begins in Eatonville, Florida, on a Saturday afternoon with Jim and Dave fighting for Daisy's affection. An argument breaks out between two men, and Jim picks up a hock bone from a mule and knocks Dave out. Because of that Jim gets arrested and is held for trial in Joe Clarke's barn. When the trial begins the townspeople are divided along religious lines: Jim's Methodist supporters sit on one side of the church, Dave's Baptist supporters on the other. The issue to be decided at the trial is whether or not Jim has committed a crime. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Mulatto" Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016 A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's Mulatto, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, 2015-05-26 A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents acomprehensive collection of original essays that address theliterature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end ofWorld War I to the middle of the 1930s. Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and uniquenew perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available Features original contributions from both emerging scholars ofthe Harlem Renaissance and established academic “stars”in the field Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as thesection on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize thecollaborative nature of the era Includes “Spotlight Readings” featuring lesserknown figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered orundervalued writings by canonicalfigures |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, 2011-10-26 Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in Black writing in America—the poems in this collection were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death and represent stunning work from his entire career. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who rushed the boots of Washington; of musicians on Lenox Avenue; of the poor and the lovesick; of losers in the raffle of night. They conveyed that experience in a voice that blended the spoken with the sung, that turned poetic lines into the phrases of jazz and blues, and that ripped through the curtain separating high from popular culture. They spanned the range from the lyric to the polemic, ringing out wonder and pain and terror—and the marrow of the bone of life. The collection includes The Negro Speaks of Rivers, The Weary Blues, Still Here, Song for a Dark Girl, Montage of a Dream Deferred, and Refugee in America. It gives us a poet of extraordinary range, directness, and stylistic virtuosity. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Thank You, M'am Langston Hughes, 2014-08 When a young boy named Roger tries to steal the purse of a woman named Luella, he is just looking for money to buy stylish new shoes. After she grabs him by the collar and drags him back to her home, he's sure that he is in deep trouble. Instead, Roger is soon left speechless by her kindness and generosity. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: A Chosen Exile Allyson Hobbs, 2014-10-13 Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap into another. This revelatory history of passing explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. It also tells a tale of loss. As racial relations in America have evolved so has the significance of passing. To pass as white in the antebellum South was to escape the shackles of slavery. After emancipation, many African Americans came to regard passing as a form of betrayal, a selling of one’s birthright. When the initially hopeful period of Reconstruction proved short-lived, passing became an opportunity to defy Jim Crow and strike out on one’s own. Although black Americans who adopted white identities reaped benefits of expanded opportunity and mobility, Hobbs helps us to recognize and understand the grief, loneliness, and isolation that accompanied—and often outweighed—these rewards. By the dawning of the civil rights era, more and more racially mixed Americans felt the loss of kin and community was too much to bear, that it was time to “pass out” and embrace a black identity. Although recent decades have witnessed an increasingly multiracial society and a growing acceptance of hybridity, the problem of race and identity remains at the center of public debate and emotionally fraught personal decisions. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Oreo Fran Ross, 2015-07-07 A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with a feminist twist, immersed in seventies pop culture, and mixing standard English, black vernacular, and Yiddish with wisecracking aplomb. Oreo, our young hero, navigates the labyrinth of sound studios and brothels and subway tunnels in Manhattan, seeking to claim her birthright while unwittingly experiencing and triggering a mythic journey of self-discovery like no other. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: A History of the Harlem Renaissance Rachel Farebrother, Miriam Thaggert, 2021-02-04 The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subsequent African American literature, and had an enormous impact on later black literature world-wide. In its attention to a wide range of genres and forms – from the roman à clef and the bildungsroman, to dance and book illustrations – this book seeks to encapsulate and analyze the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance cultural expression. It aims to re-frame conventional ideas of the New Negro movement by presenting new readings of well-studied authors, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, alongside analysis of topics, authors, and artists that deserve fuller treatment. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, A History of the Harlem Renaissance takes stock of nearly a hundred years of scholarship and considers what the future augurs for the study of 'the New Negro'. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins Mark Twain, 1894 |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Passing Nella Larsen, 2025-12-01 Passing is a profound exploration of racial identity, societal expectations, and the intricate dynamics of friendship and betrayal. Nella Larsen delves into the complexities of race and colorism in 1920s America, portraying a society where appearances are carefully curated, and personal identity is often sacrificed for social acceptance. Through the intertwined lives of Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, the novel examines how race can be both a barrier and a means of survival, as well as how it influences personal choices and relationships. Since its publication, Passing has been acclaimed for its nuanced portrayal of identity and the tensions surrounding race and class. The novel's exploration of these themes has inspired academic discussions and adaptations in various forms, including films and theatrical productions. Its characters, particularly Clare and Irene, have become central to debates on identity, autonomy, and the pressures of societal norms. The novel remains relevant today due to its incisive critique of social constructs and its portrayal of the personal and collective struggles tied to race. By addressing issues of belonging, self-perception, and the cost of conformity, Passing continues to resonate as a powerful commentary on the human experience in the face of societal expectations. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Ebony and Topaz Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 1927 |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1901 In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, 1995-10-31 The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine). Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language. The collection spans five decades, and is comprised of 868 poems (nearly 300 of which never before appeared in book form) with annotations by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. Alongside such famous works as The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes Hughes's lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as Goodbye Christ that were once suppressed. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Letters from Langston Langston Hughes, 2016-02-01 Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized world—one without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Panther and the Lash Langston Hughes, 2011-10-26 Hughes's last collection of poems commemorates the experience of Black Americans in a voice that no reader could fail to hear—the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. “Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature ... a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color. Here, Hughes's voice—sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful—is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as Prime, Motto, Dream Deferred, Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895, Still Here, Birmingham Sunday. History, Slave, Warning, and Daybreak in Alabama. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Five Plays by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, 1963-01-22 Five plays representing Hughes' dramatic writing over a period of forty years. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Imitation of Life Fannie Hurst, 2004-12-07 A reprint of the 1933 classic novel, the basis for two film versions, with a new introduciton. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Negroland Margo Jefferson, 2015-09-08 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.” Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland’s pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs—a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and “the masses of Negros,” and where the motto was “Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.” Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments—the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: A Narrative of the Negro Leila Pendleton, 1912 An early history of African Americans by an African American woman. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner) James McBride, 2013-08-20 Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town with Brown, who believes Henry is a girl. Over the next months, Henry conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. He finds himeself with Brown at the historic raid on Harper's Ferry, one of the catalysts for the civil war. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Fine Clothes to the Jew Langston Hughes, 1927 |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Counternarratives John Keene, 2016-05-17 Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Yellow Woman Leslie Marmon Silko, 1993 Ambiguous and unsettling, Silko's Yellow Woman explores one woman's desires and changes--her need to open herself to a richer sensuality. Walking away from her everyday identity as daughter, wife and mother, she takes possession of transgressive feelings and desires by recognizing them in the stories she has heard, by blurring the boundaries between herself and the Yellow Woman of myth. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Crow Ted Hughes, 1995 One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. This was the Poet Laureate's fourth book of poems for adults, and represented a significant moment in his writing career. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Proof David Auburn, 2001 THE STORY: On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Picnic William Inge, 1955 THE STORY: The play takes place on Labor day Weekend in the joint backyards of two middle-aged widows. The one house belongs to Flo Owens, who lives there with her two maturing daughters, Madge and Millie, and a boarder who is a spinster school tea |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Slave Play Jeremy O. Harris, 2024-07-11 The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation - in the breeze, in the cotton fields... and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender and sexuality in twenty-first-century America. It opened at New York Theatre Workshop in November 2018, and transferred to Broadway the following year. This edition is published alongside the West End production in 2024. 'How to explain Harris? He is like Tennessee Williams, if Williams had been Prince. Or Truman Capote, if Capote had been Paradise Garage. He is a firebrand writer with whipcrack humour. He has two brilliant plays under his belt, Slave Play and Daddy. He is such a queer hero of our times that the New York neighbourhood he lives in has become fleetingly famous. One of Jeremy O. Harris's plays coming to London is a major event' Evening Standard |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Confessions of Frannie Langton Sara Collins, 2019-05-21 Don't miss the TV miniseries, streaming now exclusively on BritBox! “A blistering historical thriller.” — Entertainment Weekly A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a gripping historical thriller with echoes of Alias Grace, The Underground Railroad, and The Paying Guests. All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being tried at the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore. But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening, even if remembering could save her life. She doesn’t know how she came to be covered in the victims’ blood. But she does have a tale to tell: a story of her childhood on a Jamaican plantation, her apprenticeship under a debauched scientist who stretched all bounds of ethics, and the events that brought her into the Benhams’ London home—and into a passionate and forbidden relationship. Though her testimony may seal her conviction, the truth will unmask the perpetrators of crimes far beyond murder and indict the whole of English society itself. A brilliant, searing depiction of race, class, and oppression that penetrates the skin and sears the soul, it is the story of a woman of her own making in a world that would see her unmade. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, 2016-11-01 A Raisin in the Sun reflects Lorraine Hansberry's childhood experiences in segregated Chicago. This electrifying masterpiece has enthralled audiences and has been heaped with critical accolades. The play that changed American theatre forever - The New York Times. Edition Description |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: What Was African American Literature? Kenneth W. Warren, 2012-09-03 African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literatureÑand to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. In WarrenÕs view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole. Finally, WarrenÕs work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: Quicksand Nella Larsen, 2025-02-28 Quicksand by Nella Larsen is a profound novel that delves into the complexities of race and identity in the 1920s. The story revolves around Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is searching for a sense of belonging and fulfillment amidst the restrictive social constructs of her time. Helga's journey takes her from her upbringing in the black middle class in the North, to the vibrant artistic community of Harlem, to the rural Southern town of her ancestry, and finally to the exotic land of Denmark. Throughout her travels, she grapples with the dichotomy of her racial identity and the expectations placed upon her by the people around her, leading to a tumultuous journey of self-discovery. The novel opens with Helga Crane, an educator at a Southern school for black children, feeling stifled by the constraints of her job and the societal norms of the black community. Driven by a desire to find her true place in the world, she moves to Harlem, seeking the cultural richness of the Harlem Renaissance. However, she quickly becomes disillusioned with the materialism and shallow relationships she encounters there. Her search for authenticity leads her to Copenhagen, where she hopes to find a connection with her white Danish heritage. Initially, she is embraced by the avant-garde artistic community, but she soon realizes that her racial identity is as much of an issue in Europe as it is in America. Despite her attempts to assimilate, she remains an outsider, and her romantic involvement with a married artist further complicates her search for belonging. Returning to the Southern town where her mother was born, Helga experiences a sense of kinship with the black community but is also faced with the stark realities of Jim Crow laws and the deep-seated racism that pervades American society. Her time in the South is marked by a passionate love affair with a minister named Dr. Anderson, who represents a potential escape from her past. However, their relationship is fraught with the same issues of identity and conformity that she has been wrestling with throughout her life. Feeling trapped by her choices and her identity, Helga ultimately marries a man named James Vayle, a fellow teacher from the North who offers her stability and a respite from her tumultuous past. Yet, their marriage is plagued by her inability to fully embrace the domestic role expected of her, as well as James's infidelity and his inability to understand her inner turmoil. As the story unfolds, Helga's journey becomes a metaphor for the struggles of individuals caught between two worlds, unable to find a stable footing in either. The novel delivers a poignant commentary on the fluidity of identity and the quest for authenticity in a society that seeks to categorize and contain. Larsen's vivid portrayal of Helga's internal conflict is mirrored in the external landscapes she traverses, each offering a unique perspective on race and identity. Quicksand is a powerful exploration of the intersections of race, class, and gender during the era of the New Negro. The characters are complex and multifaceted, reflecting the multitude of experiences faced by those navigating the complexities of the time. The prose is rich and evocative, painting a vivid picture of the various settings and the tumultuous emotions of the protagonist. The novel is significant for its nuanced treatment of racial passing and the psychological toll it takes on individuals who are forced to navigate the boundaries of identity. Helga's experiences highlight the pain and isolation that result from a lifelong quest to find a place where she truly fits in. Through her story, Larsen critiques the limitations imposed by a society that refuses to acknowledge the fluidity of identity and the human need for acceptance. Quicksand is a timeless piece of literature that resonates with readers who grapple with the complexities of their own identity. It is a compelling narrative that challenges readers to consider the societal pressures that shape our perceptions of ourselves and others. The book's themes remain relevant today, as discussions of race, belonging, and the search for identity continue to evolve. Larsen's work is a poignant reminder of the enduring human desire for connection and authenticity amidst the ever-shifting sands of social constructs. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson, 2010-09-07 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S FIVE BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth.”—John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal “What she’s done with these oral histories is stow memory in amber.”—Lynell George, Los Angeles Times WINNER: The Mark Lynton History Prize • The Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize • The Hurston-Wright Award for Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Debut • Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize FINALIST: The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Dayton Literary Peace Prize ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • USA Today • Publishers Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • The Washington Post • The Economist •Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquirer • The Guardian • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Christian Science Monitor In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in search of a better life, from World War I to 1970. Wilkerson tells this interwoven story through the lives of three unforgettable protagonists: Ida Mae Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, who in 1937 fled Mississippi for Chicago; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, and Robert Foster, a surgeon who left Louisiana in 1953 in hopes of making it in California. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous cross-country journeys by car and train and their new lives in colonies in the New World. The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is a modern classic. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's "Mulatto" Cengage Learning Gale, 2017-07-25 A Study Guide for Langston Hughes's Mulatto, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs. |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Weary Blues Langston Hughes, 1927 |
| mulatto langston hughes summary: The Worlds of Langston Hughes Vera M. Kutzinski, 2012-10-15 The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a literary practice: it is a fact of life and a way of thinking. Focusing on Hughes's autobiographies, translations of his poetry, his own translations, and the political lyrics that brought him to the attention of the infamous McCarthy Committee, she shows that translating and being translated—and often mistranslated—are as vital to Hughes's own poetics as they are to understanding the historical network of cultural relations known as literary modernism.As Kutzinski maps the trajectory of Hughes's writings across Europe and the Americas, we see the remarkable extent to which the translations of his poetry were in conversation with the work of other modernist writers. Kutzinski spotlights cities whose role as meeting places for modernists from all over the world has yet to be fully explored: Madrid, Havana, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and of course Harlem. The result is a fresh look at Hughes, not as a solitary author who wrote in a single language, but as an international figure at the heart of a global intellectual and artistic formation. |
Mulatto - Wikipedia
Mulatto (UK: / m j uː ˈ l æ t oʊ, m ə ˈ-/ mew-LAT-oh, mə-, US: / m ə ˈ l ɑː t oʊ, m j uː ˈ-/ mə-LAH-toh, mew-) is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European …
Mulatto | Definition, Social Construct, & History | Britannica
May 15, 2025 · Mulatto, a person of mixed white and Black ancestry. The term mulatto is a legacy of attempts to establish taxonomies of race, a concept that science has shown to be socially …
MULATTO Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MULATTO is the first-generation offspring of a Black person and a white person.
The Tragic Mulatto Myth - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum
The mulatto woman was depicted as a seductress whose beauty drove white men to rape her. This is an obvious and flawed attempt to reconcile the prohibitions against miscegenation …
The Mulatto Community, Globally, a story - African American ...
In anthropology, Mulatto is a historical racial classification of people born of one white parent and one Black parent (Anglo and Negro). Academia Española traces its origin to the word mulo in …
Mulattos - Encyclopedia.com
The term mulatto, referring to an individual of mixed white and black ancestry, has been in use for centuries. The sociologist Edward B. Reuter (1918) and the historian Joel Williamson (1995) …
MULATTO | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
MULATTO definition: 1. an offensive word for someone with one black parent and one white parent 2. an offensive word…. Learn more.
MULATTO Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Mulatto definition: (not in technical use) the offspring of one white parent and one Black parent.. See examples of MULATTO used in a sentence.
Mestizo vs. Mulatto — What’s the Difference?
May 3, 2024 · Mestizo refers to individuals of mixed European and Indigenous American descent, while Mulatto describes those of mixed European and African ancestry.
Mulatto - definition of mulatto by The Free Dictionary
Define mulatto. mulatto synonyms, mulatto pronunciation, mulatto translation, English dictionary definition of mulatto. n. pl. mu·lat·tos or mu·lat·toes Often Offensive A person of mixed white …
Mulatto - Wikipedia
Mulatto (UK: / m j uː ˈ l æ t oʊ, m ə ˈ-/ mew-LAT-oh, mə-, US: / m ə ˈ l ɑː t oʊ, m j uː ˈ-/ mə-LAH-toh, mew-) is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European …
Mulatto | Definition, Social Construct, & History | Britannica
May 15, 2025 · Mulatto, a person of mixed white and Black ancestry. The term mulatto is a legacy of attempts to establish taxonomies of race, a concept that science has shown to be socially …
MULATTO Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MULATTO is the first-generation offspring of a Black person and a white person.
The Tragic Mulatto Myth - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum
The mulatto woman was depicted as a seductress whose beauty drove white men to rape her. This is an obvious and flawed attempt to reconcile the prohibitions against miscegenation …
The Mulatto Community, Globally, a story - African American ...
In anthropology, Mulatto is a historical racial classification of people born of one white parent and one Black parent (Anglo and Negro). Academia Española traces its origin to the word mulo in …
Mulattos - Encyclopedia.com
The term mulatto, referring to an individual of mixed white and black ancestry, has been in use for centuries. The sociologist Edward B. Reuter (1918) and the historian Joel Williamson (1995) …
MULATTO | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
MULATTO definition: 1. an offensive word for someone with one black parent and one white parent 2. an offensive word…. Learn more.
MULATTO Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Mulatto definition: (not in technical use) the offspring of one white parent and one Black parent.. See examples of MULATTO used in a sentence.
Mestizo vs. Mulatto — What’s the Difference?
May 3, 2024 · Mestizo refers to individuals of mixed European and Indigenous American descent, while Mulatto describes those of mixed European and African ancestry.
Mulatto - definition of mulatto by The Free Dictionary
Define mulatto. mulatto synonyms, mulatto pronunciation, mulatto translation, English dictionary definition of mulatto. n. pl. mu·lat·tos or mu·lat·toes Often Offensive A person of mixed white …
