One of the great factors in the quick rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the literary movement with the contribution of writers such as Langston Hughes. ... And as James Baldwin demonstrates in his criticism the entire vocabulary used by Langston Hughes takes over that white world, and such as black music which had become important in every...
Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois continue to act as politically-charged lightning rods. Often, Washington is angrily deferred to as an "Uncle Tom" where Dubois is championed as the true hero of African-American ideals. And, by the same token, those who hold Washington in higher regard look at Dubois as an intellectual radical; a critic ...
