Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*
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Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*

Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

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Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*

Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

About this book

Langston Hughes is well known as a poet, playwright, novelist, social activist, communist sympathizer, and brilliant member of the Harlem Renaissance. He has been referred to as the "Dean of Black Letters" and the "poet low-rate of Harlem."

But it was as a columnist for the famous African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender that Hughes chronicled the hopes and despair of his people. For twenty years, he wrote forcefully about international race relations, Jim Crow, the South, white supremacy, imperialism and fascism, segregation in the armed forces, the Soviet Union and communism, and African-American art and culture. None of the racial hypocrisies of American life escaped his searing, ironic prose.

This is the first collection of Hughes's nonfiction journalistic writings. For readers new to Hughes, it is an excellent introduction; for those familiar with him, it gives new insights into his poems and fiction.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Editorial Method
  9. Introduction
  10. Part 1: The See-Saw of Race
  11. Part 2: Jim Crow’s Epitaph
  12. Part 3: Fair Play in Dixie
  13. Part 4: Nerve of Some White Folks
  14. Part 5: Brazenness of Empire
  15. Part 6: Segregation-Fatigue
  16. Part 7: Are You a Communist?
  17. Part 8: Beating Out the Blues
  18. Part 9: Here to Yonder
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index