The Question and Answer section for The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Because of the fashionable trend among both the black and white middle classes to prioritize white art over that of black artists, Hughes argues that the Black artist faces significant difficulty in his endeavors to create worthy art. He receives...
That would be the speaker of the narrative. Hughes opens the essay by relating a short anecdote about a promising young African-American poet who says, "I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet" (1). This statement, as Hughes demonstrates, reflects an...
From the text:
A prominent Negro clubwoman in Philadelphia paid eleven dollars to hear Raquel Meller sing Andalusian popular songs. But she told me a few weeks before she would not think of going to hear "that woman," Clara Smith, a great black...
