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Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62 [Hardcover]

LANGSTON HUGHES (Editor), Christopher C Santis (Editor)

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"The most persistent criticism of Langston Hughes has been that he was not a thinker, that he had no ideas to speak of ... A collection of this kind is needed to do justice to the often inspired quality of Hughes's weekly journalistic writing and to expand our sense of his interests and ideas. De Santis's is the first book to bring this material within easy reach." -- Arnold Rampersad. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 277 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (August 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252021053
ISBN-13: 978-0252021053
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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The treatment of African Americans, it all its un-fair-ity, is described here. What makes this book and this author superb, is the small things that we take for granted that we think would not offend people, actually do and this author points them out. He YELLS about them and I'm glad that I got to read his raves. Bravo!!

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Patrick Henry said: "Give me liberty or give me death." Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
push cart vendor, colored travelers, colored waiting room, toiling people

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Jim Crow, New York, United States, Red Cross, Red Army, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Josephine Baker, Old Ghost, Supreme Court, Civil War, Ernest Green, Four Hundred Million Dollars, American Negroes, Kansas City, Memphis Minnie, Civil Rights, International House, Marian Anderson, Negro Americans, South Carolina, Duke Ellington, Hong Kong, Richard Wright, Soviet Republics

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The Big Sea (American Century Series; 65) by Langston Hughes on 5 pages
Native Son by Richard A. Wright on 4 pages
The New Negro : Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by Alain Locke in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler in Front Matter, page 132, and page 136
Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Ethnicity and the American Short Story (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown on page 42, and page 45
Langston Hughes: Folk Dramatist in the Protest Tradition, 1921-1943 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets) by Joseph McLaren in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Langston Hughes: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Laurie F. Leach in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy by Nikhil Pal Singh in Back Matter
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963 (New Americanists) by Kate A. Baldwin in Back Matter

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