Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62University of Illinois Press, 1995 - 261 páginas 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. |
Índice
No HalfFreedoms | 25 |
Key Chains with No Keys | 27 |
Get Together Minorities | 29 |
The SeeSaw of Race | 31 |
Sorry Spring | 33 |
US Likes Nazis and Franco Better Than Its Own Negroes | 34 |
A Sentimental Journey to Cairo Illinois | 36 |
The Dilemma of the Negro Teacher Facing Desegregation | 38 |
The Fall of Berlin | 135 |
SegregationFatigue | 139 |
Hed Leave Him Dying | 141 |
Ask for Everything | 143 |
If Dixie Invades Europe | 145 |
Gall and Glory | 147 |
Hey Doc I Got Jim Crow Shock | 149 |
Fifty Young Negroes | 151 |
How to Integrate without Danger of Intermarriage | 40 |
A Brickbat for Education A Kiss for the Bedroom in Dixie | 41 |
The Man of the Year for 1958 | 43 |
Sit Tight and Dont Squirm | 45 |
Jim Crows Epitaph | 47 |
Are You Spanish? | 49 |
Doc Wait I Cant Sublimate | 51 |
Theaters Clubs and Negroes | 53 |
Adventures in Dining | 55 |
Encounter at the Counter | 56 |
Freight | 58 |
With the Crumbling of the Old Chain Jim Crow Crumbles Too | 60 |
MacArthur Lives in the WaldorfAstoria Gilbert Lives in Jail | 62 |
From Rampart Street to Harlem I Follow the Trial of the Blues | 63 |
In Racial Matters in St Louis De Sun Do Move | 65 |
Old Customs Die Hard | 67 |
Jim Crows Epitaph | 69 |
Fair Play in Dixie | 73 |
Letter to the South | 75 |
Hold Tight Theyre CrazyWhite | 77 |
Nazi and Dixie Nordics | 78 |
Fair Play in Dixie | 80 |
Dear Old Southland | 82 |
The Death of Bilbo | 84 |
The Sunny South | 86 |
Far from Living Up to Its Name Dixie Has Neither Manners nor Shame | 87 |
The Quaint Queer Funny Old South Has Its Ways | 89 |
Concerning a Great Mississippi Writer and the Southern Negro | 91 |
The Same Old Fight All Over Again in Dixie | 92 |
Nerve of Some White Folks | 95 |
Jokes on Our White Folks | 97 |
Letter to White Shopkeepers | 99 |
Suggestions to White Shopkeepers | 101 |
The Snake in the House | 103 |
Nerve of Some White Folks | 105 |
Shame | 107 |
So? | 109 |
Boo | 110 |
Those Little Things | 112 |
Harlems Bitter Laughter | 113 |
The Folk Lore of Race Relations | 115 |
Brazenness of Empire | 119 |
America after the War | 121 |
The World after the War | 123 |
The Detroit Blues | 124 |
Photographs from Teheran | 126 |
Colored Lived There Once | 128 |
Invasion | 130 |
OverRipe Apple | 132 |
The Animals Must Wonder | 134 |
The Purple Heart | 153 |
War and a Sorry Fear | 155 |
VJ Night in Harlem | 156 |
North South and the Army | 158 |
Are You a Communist? | 161 |
The Red Army | 163 |
Army of Liberation | 165 |
The Soviet Union | 167 |
The Soviet Union and Jews | 168 |
The Soviet Union and Color | 170 |
The Soviet Union and Women | 172 |
The Soviet Union and Health | 174 |
Faults of the Soviet Union | 176 |
Light and the Soviet Union | 178 |
Are You a Communist? | 180 |
A Thorn in the Side | 182 |
A Portent and a Warning to the Negro People from Hughes | 184 |
Old Ghost Appears before the UnAmerican Committee and Refuses to Remove His Hat | 185 |
The Accusers Names Nobody Will Remember but History Records Du Bois | 187 |
Why 111 Winds and Dark Clouds Dont Scare Negroes Much | 188 |
Beating Out the Blues | 191 |
Child of Charm | 193 |
Music at Years End | 195 |
The Duke Plays for Russia | 197 |
On Leaping and Shouting | 199 |
Art and Integrity | 200 |
Art and the Heart | 202 |
Steins | 204 |
Return of the Native Musically Speaking the Drums Come to Harlem | 205 |
The Influence of Negro Music on American Entertainment | 207 |
How a Poem Was Born in a Jim Crow Car Rattling from Los Angeles to New Orleans | 208 |
Slavery and Leadbelly Are Gone but the Old Songs Go Singing On | 210 |
Its Yesterday Today and Its Potential Tomorrow | 212 |
House Rent Parties Are Again Returning to Harlem | 214 |
That Sad Happy Music Called Jazz | 216 |
Here to Yonder | 219 |
Why and Wherefore | 221 |
Dont Be a Food Sissy | 223 |
On Missing a Train | 225 |
Saturday Night | 227 |
Random Thoughts on Nice People | 229 |
On Human Loneliness | 231 |
My Day | 233 |
My Nights | 235 |
New York and Us | 236 |
From the International House Bronzeville Seems Far Far Away | 238 |
Notes | 241 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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