Essay - Langston Hughes Method of Exposing Racism and Gender Racism in...

Langston Hughes method of exposing racism and gender ***** in Five Plays is to simply tell it like it is, to show all aspects ***** black life, good, bad, beautiful, ugly, and everything in between. He depicts forms of racism such as oppression, miscegenation, violence, dishonesty ***** the name of religion, illegal profiteering playing upon the hopes and dreams of ***** poor, at the same time he glorifies the love, beauty, uplifting music, true faith and laughter of his ***** brothers ***** sisters. He doesn't try to hide what is unsavory about blacks. ***** doesn't need to put a lot of whites in h***** plays to demonstrate *****. Langs*****n ***** presents t*****e black people ***** they are, showing how racism and ***** racism has continues to affect their lives.

The Voices and Visions video on Langston Hughes reveals how the artis***** of Hughes has contributed to our underst*****ing ***** racism. In June of 1926 what was called Hughes's "Manifes*****" appeared in ***** Nation Magazine. In this piece, titled: "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," Hughes, who was fast becoming both the voice of Negro people, ***** the voice of ***** Negro artist expressed the philosophy we see in his works: "We are beautiful and ugly too. ***** stand on top ***** the mountain free within ourselves" (Voices and Visi*****s *****). Hughes wrote ***** everyday ordinary blacks, about their beauty and their ugliness. He focused on common working *****. His role as writer w***** to transform the ordinary and commonplace through ***** poetic imagination into art. This art conveyed the role of ***** in their lives ***** order to help them ***** themselves and their relationships *****ith whites better.

Hughes is described as "a seer who gives illumination to the significance ***** black experience." In the video, James Baldwin says: Hughes "helps blacks to see what's already in front of their eyes." As an "unrelenting" publicist for black ***** ********** black people Hughes injected the black ***** with significance. Using black speech patterns and music he underscored his main theme that black is *****. (Voices and Visions video).

In the anthology, Five *****, the edi*****r, Webster Smalley presents plays by Hughes that bring to ***** stage the tragedy ***** comedy and everything in between that makes up the black s*****ry in the deep South and in Harlem. The five plays are Mulatto, Soul Gone Home, Little Ham, Simply Heavenly, and Tambour*****es to Glory.

***** is a ***** th*****t takes place in the deep South where racism is most deeply entrenched. "In Mulat*****," says editor Smalley, "***** injustices suffered by Bert, by Cora, ***** by all the Negroes in the rural South are clearly and forcefully presented" (Smalley xi). Colonel Thomas Norwood has lived ***** a black woman, Cora, for many years ever since his wife died. He has had 5 children ***** her. ***** four still living are now adults or nearly so. The father doesn't publicly acknowledge ***** children, though he pays for their schooling. He finds it outrageous