Langston Hughes The Negro Artist And Racial Mountain

Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and Racial Mountain, is about some Negro artists want to be a recognize as regular artist but not a “Negro” artist. To illustrate the scenario, Hughes mention a young Negro artist told him about his dream becoming great but want to have same privileges a white artist, specifically, being called an artist than a Negro artist. Hughes explains that Negroes being compared to white people is messing up Negros’ identities and how other Negroes are doing the same thing. He said, “A middle class Negro family reads white papers and magazines. When the children are bad, the mother often says, “Don’t be like a niggers.” A frequent phrase the father would say, “Look how well a white man does things.”” (91) The thoughts