The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

Indicating the significance of this experience to Hughes's development as a writer, Faith Berry has described the Soviet period as 'among the most productive of his literary career' (189). Hughes's sojourn to the Soviet Union, a trip that ended up covering a year, from June 1932 to June 1933, has been acknowledged in biographical accounts. The image of an 'ark' that Hughes proposes in his description of the steamship illustrates the fact that Hughes was eager to depart from US shores, excited about the artistic and social potential a Soviet adventure might bring him. Scheduled on board were Thompson and the group of would-be actors she had organized to participate in a proposed, Soviet-funded film project titled Black and White. The boat in question was the Europa, bound for Berlin, and beyond that for Leningrad and Moscow.

In June of 1932 Langston Hughes posted a telegram to his friend Louise Thomspon that read, 'hold that boat 'cause to me it's an Ark' (qtd. Langston Hughes, 'Letter to the Academy' Gentiles or Kipling writing never the twain shall meet. Marry my daughter or the Rabbi crying cursed be the mating of Jews and Speak about the Revolution-where flesh triumphs Īnd the young by the hundreds of thousands are freeįrom hunger to grow and study and love and propagate, bodies Īnd souls unchained without My Lord saying a commoner shall never The defeat of the flesh and the triumph of the spirit Julian Anissimov, 'Kinship' The gentlemen who wrote lovely books about Interracialism as Queer Alliance in Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks Kate A. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes