However, that was not his overall goal and there are those authors who believe that Hughes appealed to a couple of different cultures or groups. .
One of those such men was James Smethurst with his writings titled, "The Adventures of a Social Poet: Langston Hughes from the Popular Front to Black Power." I agree with James Smethurst that Langston was exactly that a man with an agenda, his writings were not just to raise awareness of social injustice in and out of the black community. Langston Hughes was a man ahead of his time with views that saw beyond color barriers, and while his writings did appeal to interracial groups who were into "serious" modern literature he was still viewed as a Revolutionary and a voice for the African American. Smethurst refers to this with the following statement: "This division of Hughes's work into three basic modes can be seen as a reflection of the relative weakness of the Left within the broader African American community in the early 1930s at the same time that the political, cultural, and economic impact of the Great Depression and a new Communist Party engagement with "Negro Liberation" drew African American intellectuals and artists further into the circles of the communist Left (2004).".
During this period in his life Langston Hughes was a man who transcended what it was to be African American into what he thought that it should be through his writings according to Smethurst, "An African American narrator frequently searches for an organic connection to an African heritage but finds himself strangely rejected and assigned to another community in which he is an outsider when the indigenous people see him indistinguishable from his "white" (and "brown") mates (2004)." As evidence in short stories like, "The Little Virgin". In that story, Mike, a more seasoned mariner from Newark, New Jersey, strikes an African prostitute for spilling his drink in a waterfront bar in Senegal.
