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Achieving the American Dream: Deferred and Grueling

Langston Hughes’s “Montage of A Dream Deferred” explores the American dream being sought after, yet impossible to grasp for blacks. Out of all of the poems in the Montage, the poem “Theme for English B”illustrates how the American dream of … Continue reading

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One of Many Sources of Uplift in Black America: Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes is one of the most renowned poets during the Harlem Renaissance. Mike Chasar takes this ideal and analyzes Hughes and other poets such as Claude McKay and Sterling Brown in his article titled “The Sounds of Black Laughter … Continue reading

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