Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

645 Pages·2002·3.326 MB·English

by  Langston Hughes, Christopher C. De Santis, Christopher C. De Santis

The Collected Works of
Langston Hughes
Volume 9
Essays on Art, Race, Politics,
and World Affairs
Projected Volumes in the Collected Works
ThePoems:1921–1940
ThePoems:1941–1950
ThePoems:1951–1967
TheNovels:NotwithoutLaughter
andTambourinestoGlory
ThePlaysto1942:Mulatto toTheSunDoMove
TheGospelPlays,Operas,andOther
LateDramaticWork
TheEarlySimpleStories
TheLaterSimpleStories
EssaysonArt,Race,Politics,andWorldAffairs
FightforFreedom andOtherWritingsonCivilRights
WorksforChildrenandYoungAdults:Poetry,
Fiction,andOtherWriting
WorksforChildrenandYoungAdults:Biographies
Autobiography:TheBigSea
Autobiography:IWonderAsIWander
TheShortStories
TheTranslations
AnAnnotatedBibliographyofthe
WorksofLangstonHughes
(cid:1)
Publication of
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
has been generously assisted by
Landon and Sarah Rowland
and
Morton and Estelle Sosland
Editorial Board
ArnoldRampersad,Chair,StanfordUniversity
DolanHubbard,MorganStateUniversity
LeslieCatherineSanders,YorkUniversity
StevenC.Tracy,UniversityofMassachusetts,Amherst
The Collected Works of
Langston
Hughes
Volume 9
Essays on Art, Race, Politics,
and World Affairs
Edited with an Introduction
by Christopher C. De Santis
UniversityofMissouriPress
ColumbiaandLondon
Copyright©2002byRamonaBassandArnoldRampersad,AdministratorsoftheEstateof
LangstonHughes
Introductioncopyright©2002byChristopherC.DeSantis
Chronologycopyright©2001byArnoldRampersad
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Chronology xi
Introduction 1
ANoteontheText 19
1. Essays,1921–1929 23
2. Essays,1930–1939 45
3. Essays,1940–1949 207
4. Essays,1950–1959 294
5. Essays,1960–1967 384
6. Forewords,Prefaces,and
IntroductionstoEditedVolumes 480
7. Reviews 530
8. BriefTributes,Letterstothe
Editor,MiscellaneousPieces 552
Notes 557
IndexofTitles 595
Index 599

Acknowledgments
IwouldliketogratefullyacknowledgetheDepartmentofEnglishand
the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University for provid-
ing research grants and additional funding that helped in the comple-
tionofthisvolume.RonFortune,ChairoftheDepartmentofEnglish,
has been particularly supportive of faculty research and deserves special
recognition and thanks. Beverly Jarrett and Jane Lago of the Univer-
sity of Missouri Press expertly guided this volume to completion. They
fieldedendlessquestionswithpatienceandenthusiasm,andtheiradvice
about the final contents of the book was invaluable. I would also like
to thank Karen Chachere for her research assistance and those teachers
andscholarswhohaveinspiredmyworkonLangstonHughesoverthe
years: Sandra Adell, William L. Andrews, John Callahan, Nellie McKay,
Arnold Rampersad, and Craig Werner. Finally, I thank Stacey Gottlieb
and Julie Jung for the generosity of spirit and humor that sustained me
whileworkingonthisbook.
The University of Missouri Press is grateful for assistance from the
following individuals and institutions in locating and making available
copies of the original editions used in the preparation of this edition:
Anne Barker and June DeWeese, Ellis Library, University of Missouri–
Columbia; Teresa Gipson, Miller Nichols Library, University of Mis-
souri–Kansas City; Ruth Carruth and Patricia C. Willis, Beinecke Rare
Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Ann Pathega, Washing-
tonUniversity.
TheCollectedWorks wouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutthesupport
and assistance of Patricia Powell, Chris Byrne, and Wendy Schmalz of
Harold Ober Associates, representing the estate of Langston Hughes,
and of Arnold Rampersad and Ramona Bass, co-executors of the estate
ofLangstonHughes.
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