Langston Hughes' Poem "Song for a Dark Girl": Politics, Representation & Change
Poetry, politics and representation are inherently connected in African American poetry, especially in work produced during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, such as Langston Hughes’s poem Song for a Dark Girl (p1), which this essay will focus on. African American poetry around this time is inescapably political given the historical context of inordinate … Read more