Author: Langston Hughes
Year: 1934
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Fiction, Short Stories, Classic, Poetry
Culture: African-American
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ISBNs:
9780679728177
0679728171 |
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One of his best-known works, Hughes wrote
The Ways of White Folks
while living in Carmel, California. In it, he shares acrid and poignant stories of blacks colliding--sometimes humorously, but often tragically--with whites throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
The book consists of fourteen moving stories:
"Cora Unashamed"
"Slave on the Block"
"Home"
"Passing"
"A Good Job Gone"
"Rejuvenation Through Joy"
"The Blues I'm Playing"
"Red-Headed Baby"
"Poor Little Black Fellow"
"Little Dog"
"Berry"
"Mother and Child"
"One Christmas Eve"
"Father and Son"
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