He wrote something else, too, an essay called "Stranger in the Village"; it was this essay, even more than the novel, that brought me to Leukerbad. ... The part of the essay that focuses on the Swiss village is both bemused and sorrowful. ... But, later in the essay, when he writes about race in America, he is not at all bemused. ... The test is how long the glances last, whether they become stares, with what intent they occur, whether they contain any degree of hostility or mockery, and to what extent connections, money, or mode of dress shield me in these situations. ... But the w...

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He didn't write only about African Americans, and the many struggles they had to face. ... Through Hughes" works that included: poetry, short stories, novels, and political essays, Hughes brought his words to life and educated many people. ... He sat alone looking out the window, contemplating his future. ... In the first stanza Hughes" writes about how while he was working in the jazz club, how he was treated only as a worker, and could never sit with the white people. ... He went on to write many more poems, short stories, and plays. ...

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This produced copious perspirations so that the air became unfit for respiration from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died- - thus falling victims of the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers" (From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African, London, 1789) In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African the protagonist recounts the pain involved in entering this enormous ship, and how, gradually, the more the ship flew over ...

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