https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk This Padlet explores the biographical, critical, cultural, and historical contexts of Langston Hughes by David Bradford and Christian Kerr. en-us 2017-04-25 18:33:16 UTC 2023-02-03 13:57:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/prod/195202502/46bf23616989eab05138170a78a9dc63/flag.png bdavid1998 https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/168205464 2017-04-25 18:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/168205464 bdavid1998 https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/168206285 KCUR Through A Glass Productions
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Photo Credentials: Renee Watson
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Photo Credential: Michael Morand
http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3772470]]> 2017-04-27 19:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/168737697 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169094410 "The poem is a singularly significant affirmation of the museum’s mission to tell the history of United States through the lens of the African-American experience. It embodies that history at a particular point in the early 20th century when Jim Crow laws throughout the South enforced racial segregation; and argues against those who would deny that importance—and that presence. Its mere 18 lines capture a series of intertwined themes about the relationship of African-Americans to the majority culture and society, themes that show Hughes’ recognition of the painful complexity of that relationship.
-Smithsonian historian David Ward reflects on the work of Langston Hughes]]> 2017-05-01 00:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169094410 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169096307 Cultural Context]]> 2017-05-01 00:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169096307 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169097017 2017-05-01 01:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169097017 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169259122 Langston Hughes is a writer of striking, seemingly simple poems. His words are melodic; they have a musical rhythm. “I, too, sing America,” he writes at the beginning of his poem, “I, Too,” about an unnamed speaker who feels that his own country is ashamed of him. The speaker is relegated to eating in the kitchen, but, Hughes writes, “Tomorrow, / I’ll be at the table / When company comes.” It’s a poem about protest, and the emotional and practical reasons protest becomes necessary. It’s also a poem about loving your country, but feeling as though you’re not truly a part of it. It’s a poem that’s needed right now, which is why The New York Times dedicated an entire page to it in its print edition today.]]> 2017-05-01 18:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169259122 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169262096 Cultural Context]]> 2017-05-01 18:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169262096 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169266625 http://andria.photoshelter.com/image/I0000MANb2TvVSJ0]]> 2017-05-01 19:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169266625 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169272010 2017-05-01 19:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169272010 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169272143 2017-05-01 19:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169272143 ckballer https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169272425 2017-05-01 19:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169272425 bdavid1998 https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169289251 "Let America Be America Again," published in Esquire and in the International Worker Order pamphlet A New Song (1938), pleads for fulfillment of the Dream that never was. It speaks of the freedom and equality which America boasts, but never had. It looks forward to a day when "Liberty is crowned with no false patriotic wreath" and America is "that great strong land of love." Hughes, though, is not limiting his plea to the downtrodden Negro; he includes, as well, the poor white, the Indian, the immigrant--farmer, worker, "the people" share the Dream that has not been. The Dream still beckons. In "Freedom's Plow" he points out that "America is a dream" and the product of the seed of freedom is not only for all Americans but for all the world. The American Dream of brotherhood, freedom, and democracy must come to all peoples and all races of the world, he insists."]]> 2017-05-01 21:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ckballer/91c0dhxwpkbk/wish/169289251