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Langston Hughes viewed himself first and foremost as a Negro artist. His definition of the same was an artist who used his medium to celebrate the beauty, talent, language, and culture of American Negroes. It was this definition of Negro artist that made his work popular during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s when cultural confidence was cultivated among blacks and other marginalized communities. It was this same definition of Negro artist that made his work unpopular during those times when the creativity of black artists was forced to walk the tightrope between the harsh criticisms by blacks and stereotypes imposed by whites. While many of his contemporaries opted to walk this tightrope, Hughes chose to produce work in keeping with his own definition of what a Negro artist was. ...
In his essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926), Hughes says of his work “Most of my own poems are racial in theme and treatment, derived from the life that I know” (Hughes, 1926). The life that Hughes knew was that of a black man born and raised in the early 20th century. ...
These themes are reflected throughout Hughes’ poetry. In his poem I, Too (1925), Hughes very cleverly illustrates mainstream America’s refusal to acknowledge blacks as one of their own; their refusal to acknowledge the accomplishments of blacks as they would one of their own.
Approximate Word count = 1105
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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