Timeline
Lifetime:
1902 -
1967
Passed: ≈
58 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Langston Hughes
Books by Langston Hughes
The South
Poetry
Non-Fiction
Poverty
Racism
Social Justice
Civil Rights
African American
Segregation
Jim Crow
Discrimination
Southern culture
Harlem Renaissance
Black identity
“The South” by Langston Hughes is a powerful poem that offers a stark and unflinching portrayal of the South during the Jim Crow era. Using vivid imagery and evocative language, Hughes exposes the harsh realities of racism and segregation faced by Af...
Fine Clothes to the Jew
Poetry
Non-Fiction
Race
Identity
Criticism
social commentary
Urban Life
Jazz
African American
Modernism
Disillusionment
Rejection
Harlem Renaissance
Blues
Langston Hughes's *Fine Clothes to the Jew* is a collection of poems that reflects the complexities of Black identity and experience in the early 20th century. The poems explore themes of alienation, disillusionment, and the search for self-definitio...