{"id":169,"date":"2023-10-26T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/?p=169"},"modified":"2023-10-26T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T10:55:14","slug":"langston-hughes-1901-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/2023\/10\/26\/langston-hughes-1901-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Langston Hughes 1901 &#8211; 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2023\/10\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2023\/10\/Picture1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2023\/10\/Picture1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2023\/10\/Picture1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>Langston Hughes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New York City\u2019s Harlem was transformed in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century from a small middle class white neighbourhood into a cultural mecca for Black artists, writers and musicians moving north in the Great Migration to escape Jim Crow laws. The Cotton Club, Louis Armstrong and Paul Robeson brought spirituals and innovation into new forms of music. In dance, Josephine Baker affirmed a place for Black women. In art, Meta Warrick Fuller was one of the first, if not the first, African American woman to make a place for sculpture in the US. Black Nationalism flourished under Marcus Garvey. And in poetry, Langston Hughes developed a voice which revealed Black experience with wit, hope, musicality and encouraging what Senator John Lewis would call \u2018good trouble.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018I Look at the World\u2019 is a pessimistic poem but also hopeful for the future, that what exists as yet only in his mind may one day be a real version of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Russell Evans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2023\/10\/Picture2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2023\/10\/Picture2.png 281w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2023\/10\/Picture2-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City\u2019s Harlem was transformed in the early 20th century from a small middle class white neighbourhood into a cultural mecca for Black artists, writers and musicians moving north in the Great Migration to escape Jim Crow laws. The Cotton Club, Louis Armstrong and Paul Robeson brought spirituals and innovation into new forms of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/2023\/10\/26\/langston-hughes-1901-1967\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Langston Hughes 1901 &#8211; 1967<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/foahbequalitydiversityandinclusion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}