It took the American democracy several years to enforce equality among whites and blacks. Several authors such as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen confronted this situation of the incomplete American dream with literature that proposed the irony of its society. These works focused on the contradiction of the American dream ... ." I believe he named this poem "America" to suggest the inconsistency of the American values and the actual American way. There was also an African American author by the name of Langston Hughes. He became very famous for his poem "I Too", which also ...

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