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A 3 page paper on Langston Hughes’ essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” No additional sources cited.
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from the perspective of the African American. It is an essay about the Negro artist, as the title suggests, and it is an essay about the nature of the African
American people in many different ways. For the most part Hughes argues that the African American must be true to themselves in art and in life. The following paper examines
Hughes essay, illustrating how it focuses on how the African American has lost their identity in many respects, a perspective that essentially inspired his essay. The Negro Artist
and the Racial Mountain The inspiration of this essay, and the underlying theme, is seen in the first sentence when Hughes states, "One of the most promising of the young
Negro poets said to me once, I want to be a poet--not a Negro poet, meaning, I believe, I want to write like a white poet; meaning subconsciously, I would
like to be a white poet; meaning behind that, I would like to be white" (Hughes). Now, understandably, the speaker may have only been claiming he did not want to
be a black poet, but a poet who was simply a human being, not necessarily white either. But, Hughes accepts this possibility because he says that he believes that the
young man meant he wanted to be a white poet. The point is that this young mans words brought this issue to mind for Hughes, and thus Hughes was inspired
to write about how so many African Americans want to be white. Hughes discusses many things in the essay, but his point about how the African American has lost
what unique identity he possessed comes from the white influence of society. African Americans are, and were, raised in a society where there was not much African American culture to
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