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Mulatto by Langston Hughes

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Author Biography

Name: Langston Hughes
Birth Date: February 1, 1902
Death Date: May 22, 1967
Place of Birth: Joplin, Missouri, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, playwright

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Biography of (James) Langston Hughes
1169 words, approx. 3.9 pages
France held a special value for Langston Hughes even before he first visited Paris. "I will never forget the thrill of first understanding the French of de Maupassant," he writes in The Big Sea (1940). "I think it was de Maupassant who made me really wan...
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Biography of Langston Hughes
976 words, approx. 3.3 pages
American author Langston Hughes (1902-1967), a moving spirit in the artistic ferment of the 1920s often called the Harlem Renaissance, expressed the mind and spirit of most African Americans for nearly half a century. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin,...
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Biography of Langston Hughes
10169 words, approx. 33.9 pages
As a household name for so many readers of varying persuasions, Langston Hughes was perhaps the most significant black American writer in the twentieth century. From the Harlem Renaissance of the early twenties, to the Black Arts reorientations of the si...
 


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Mulatto Information
1,911 words, approx. 6 pages
Mulatto (Portuguese or Spanish mulato, "small mule", "person of mixed race", ultimately from Latin mūlus, "mule") is a person who has both black and white ancestry. It can also be used as an adjective to describe something as a light brown color.[1]...


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Hemisphere
The Mulatto Myth.
01/01/2001: 1,930 words, approx. 6 pages
Historical lessons for contemporary Afro-Brazilian identity Afro-Brazilian activists are struggling to change how blacks identify themselves. In a culture that uses a range of racial designations to describe hair types and skin tones, they are urging Brazilians of African descent to embrace...
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The Americas
Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean
10/01/2004: 637 words, approx. 2 pages
Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean. By José F. BuscagliaSalgado. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. xxv, 340. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $63.95 cloth; $22.95 paper. Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, and director of the Cuban and...
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Vibe.com
Jaguar Wright: Married to Soul
12/15/2005: 972 words, approx. 3 pages
Before we heard about 50 Cent being shot nine times, or witnessed the excessive arrogance of Kanye “Napoleon Complex” West – there was “neo-soul” dominating the land of R&B;/hip-hop. Everywhere we turned we saw natural hair, afros, beaded necklaces and songs about gooey love. Many...
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The New York Observer
Jacko Meets the Theory Jocks\'d1 And the Music Gets Left Out
1/15/2006: 938 words, approx. 3 pages
New York Times critic Margo Jefferson has written a risky little book on Michael Jackson. “Risky” because, at 146 pages, it avails itself of none of the satisfactions of a proper biography, instead asking us to cough up $20 for the quality of Ms. Jefferson’s...
 


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