Read the excerpt from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," by Langston Hughes.Yet the Philadelphia clubwoman is ashamed to say that her race created it and she does not like me to write about it. The old subconscious “white is best” runs through her mind. Years of study under white teachers, a lifetime of white books, pictures, and papers, and white manners, morals, and Puritan standards made her dislike the spirituals. And now she turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifestations—likewise almost everything else distinctly racial. She doesn’t care for the Winold Reiss portraits of Negroes because they are “too Negro.” She does not want a true picture of herself from anybody.Which best describes Hughes’s chief concern in this excerpt?
Which best describes Hughes’s purpose in "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"?
According to "Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement," the 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education marked the beginning of the
Read the excerpt from “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.”The present vogue in things Negro, although it may do as much harm as good for the budding artist, has at least done this: it has brought him forcibly to the attention of his own people among whom for so long, unless the other race had noticed him beforehand, he was a prophet with little honor.In this context, what is the meaning of “vogue”?
According to "Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement," which was one effect of the first wave of the Great Migration?
Read the passage.A play by Langston Hughes, Tambourines to Glory, was considered a failure. Some reviewers accused Hughes of creating caricatures of black life, with one-dimensional characters and too much humor.In this context, what is the meaning of “caricatures”?
Read the excerpt from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." Let the blare of Negro jazz bands and the bellowing voice of Bessie Smith singing Blues penetrate the closed ears of the colored near intellectual until they listen and perhaps understand. Let Paul Robeson singing “Water Boy,” and Rudolph Fisher writing about the streets of Harlem, and Jean Toomer holding the heart of Georgia in his hands, and Aaron Douglas drawing strange black fantasies cause the smug Negro middle class to turn from their white, respectable, ordinary books and papers to catch a glimmer of their own beauty. According to this excerpt, why is it important that the “near intellectuals” expose themselves to Bessie Smith, Paul Robeson, and other Black artists?
Based upon "Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement," what was the difference between the political goals and strategies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X?
Read the excerpt from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering “I want to be white,” hidden in the aspirations of his people, to “Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful!”In this excerpt, Hughes is expressing the idea that
According to "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," Hughes believes that young Black artists should
Did you find these answers helpful?