Poetry has never celebrated pride in African-American culture more than that period in the 20"s. ... DuBois Black artists of all kinds followed DuBois as a mentor during the period of pressing prejudice and poverty in their new-found haven in Harlem. ... The poets of the renaissance gathered their work through their sense of pride rooted in their racial identities ("Harlem Renaissance Movement".4). This explosion of pride and need for equality much was done for the right's of African-Americans, even if the effects weren't immediate. ...

• Word Count: 876
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The speaker used hate, negativity, and prejudice as motivation to be a better person like Hughes did. ... He understands that he lives in a corrupt country filled with prejudice and hate, but he knows who he is and who African Americans are. ... "I Too" is a perfect comparison of his own attitude and pride in his own identity. Hughes has created identity as a theme to successfully unite his audience under pride and self-confidence of who they are....

• Word Count: 1169
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hughes studied in Columbia University till he left due to racial prejudice. ... Most of Hughes poetry illustrates the ordeals experienced by his race and the pride he feels in his people's accomplishments. Langston Hughes' poetry also shows an obvious pride in the Black American race and what they have done to American society. His pride is mostly seen in his use of the rhyme of Jazz, a type of much developed mostly by Black Americans and enjoyed by both black and white in American. ... His pride is mostly seen in his use of the rhyme of Jazz. ...

• Word Count: 934
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A rasin in the sun demonstrates the everlasting fight for a small black family's struggle to keep their dreams alive through to the end by the practice of family values and morals against poverity and prejudice. ... In the end Walter learns that pride in himself and his family is inseparable and that anything that harms one harms the other. Also, he learns that he needs to set his dreams aside and possibly "eat the eggs" of poverty and prejudice for the sake of the family is success. ...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes was America's Jazz Poet, the chronicler of life in Harlem in the 1920s. Setting out to write about black Americans, Hughes created a body of work-poetry, fiction, journalism, essays, plays, and song lyrics. While decrying racism and the inequities it created for blacks and other mi...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School