Read the excerpt from Hughes’s "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." And now she turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifestations —likewise almost everything else distinctly racial. In this context, what is the meaning of “manifestations”?

“Manifestations” means forms or visible expressions of something. In the excerpt, it refers to the different ways jazz appears or is expressed, so “displays” is the closest choice. “Negativity,” “singing,” and “warnings” do not capture the broader meaning.

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