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 ... . This segregation barred blacksfrom entire sectors of the economy and humiliated them at every turn. Even though African Americans were considered free, whites found another barrier to keep them unhappy. Claude McKay, an African American writer, was considered by some a...

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