The Ways of White Folks (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Langston Hughes
- First Published: 1934
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Interracial relationships, Art or artists, Ethnic groups, Minorities, Lynching, Pianos or pianists
The Work
During Langston Hughes’s travels to Russia in 1931, he became intensely interested in D. H. Lawrence’s short fiction. As he later described in I Wonder as I Wander, he had never read Lawrence before and remarked that both “The Rocking Horse Winner” and “The Lovely Lady” had made his “hair stand on end.” “I could not put the book down,” he wrote. Furthermore, he wrote: “If D. H. Lawrence can write such psychologically powerful accounts of folks in England . . . maybe I could write stories like his about folks in America.”
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