‘American Fiction’ Review: Jeffrey Wright in Cord Jefferson’s Clever Directorial Debut About the Black Artist’s Dilemma
In 1926, Langston Hughes wrote an essay about his disappointment in a young writer who expressed, “I want to be a poet — not a Negro poet.” Hughes used that lamentation to argue that this writer — of Black middle-class upbringing — wanted to be white. More interesting than Hughes’ pathologizing in…
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