A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Langston Hughes, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Borden, Anne. "Heroic 'hussies' and 'brilliant queers': genderracial resistance in the works of Langston Hughes," African American Review, Fall, 1994
Dawahare, Anthony. "Langston Hughes' Radical Poetry and the 'End of Race'" MELUS, Fall, 1998
Dawahare, Anthony. An introduction to Langston Hughes from the American Masters series by Dr. Dawahare, who writes, "For Langston Hughes, best known as the 'poet laureate' of the Harlem Renaissance, racism is a mindset that blinds both black and white Americans to their common interests in creating a better life."
Giaimo, Paul. "Ethnic outsiders: the hyper-ethnicized narrator in Langston Hughes and Fred L. Gardaphe," MELUS, Fall, 2003
Maryemma, Graham. "Langston Hughes Centennial, 1902-1967: The beat goes on." On the lasting influence of Langston Hughes in Crisis, an early publisher of his work. In New Crisis, Jan/Feb 2002
Scott, Mark. "Langston Hughes of Kansas," a biographical article on Langston Hughes and his family. Kansas History, 3 (Spring 1980); 3-25
Walker, Catherine. "Langston Hughes: Published and Publisher." On Langston Hughes as a blues-poet, in ELM: A Journal of Undergraduate Research, 1,1, Fall 2004
www.findarticles.com Search Findarticles.com for additional signed articles and book reviews on Langston Hughes' poems
The NYTimes Langston Hughes site has many Times reviews of his poetry, from 1930-1996, and news articles on Hughes (free but requires a one-time user registration)
Excerpts from reputable critical articles on Langston Hughes with sections on Hughes' Life and poems, including "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (1926); On "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"; On "The Weary Blues"; On "Harlem"; On "The Cat and the Saxophone"; On "Negro"; On "Justice"; On "Mulatto"; On "Lynching Song"; On "The Bitter River"; On "Ku Klux"; On "Letter from Spain"; About the Spanish Civil War; A Hughes Spanish Civil War Broadside; Hughes, "Negroes in Spain" (1937); On "Goodbye Christ"; On "Christ in Alabama"; On Claude McKay's "The Negro's Tragedy" and Langston Hughes' "Christ in Alabama"; On "Let America Be America Again"; On "Flight"; On "Madam and the Phone Bill"; About "Come to the Waldorf-Astoria"; On "White Shadows"; A Right-Wing Anti-Hughes Flier; On "The Backlash Blues; Hughes in the 1930s; "To Negro Writers" (1935); Three Hughes Book-Jackets; Hughes Bibliography; On "Three Songs about Lynching"; About Lynching; About the Great Depression, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
A biography of Langston Hughes From the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Brief biography of Langston Hughes from PBS
A brief biography of Langston Hughes from the Library of Congress
A brief introduction to Langston Hughes from the Academy of American Poets
Excerpt from a Harper Collins casebook (2000) on Mule Bone, the unfinished collaboration between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston that led to their notorious literary quarrel
A 1959 review of Langston Hughes' poetry by James Baldwin, who laments that Hughes never lived up to his potential
A complicated online exhibit of material related to Langston Hughes, from the Beinecke Library at Yale
A web site on Langston Hughes created by C-SPAN to accompany its American Writers series
Issues and questions for teachers of Langston Hughes' poetry, from Heath guides
Some lesson plans for teaching Langston Hughes' poetry, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Questions for discussion on Langston Hughes' "Salvation," from McGraw-Hill
A primary and secondary bibliography for Langston Hughes, a brief biography, and study questions, from Dr. Paul Reuben's PAL web site
Langston Hughes Articles Indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, an extensive list of articles, from the Randolph Fisher newsletter
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