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Cora Unashamed is a 2000 American made-for-television drama film from The American Collection directed by Deborah Pratt, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones. The film was shot on location in October 1999 in central Iowa.
- Alt Films, WGBH
- Langston Hughes (short story), Ann Peacock (teleplay)
Summary: “Cora Unashamed”. “Cora Unashamed,” by Langston Hughes, was first published in his 1934 short story collection The Ways of White Folks. Like the collection as a whole, “Cora Unashamed“ explores racial consciousness and the relationships between Black and white individuals and communities. Known for his literary ...
Cora was the oldest of a family of eight children—the Jenkins niggers. The only Negroes in Melton, thank God! Where they came from originally —that is, the old folks—God knows. The kids were born there. The old folks are still there now: Pa drives a junk wagon. The old woman ails around the house, ails and quarrels.
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Cora Unashamed. By Langston Hughes, first published in The American Mercury . In a town so small it can hardly be called a town, a black woman serves a rich white family until a series of horrific events causes the single joy in her life to vanish. Melton, a charmless cluster of various houses and shops on unpaved road, is between a town and a ...
Oct 25, 2000 · Cora Unashamed: Directed by Deborah Pratt. With Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Ellen Muth, Michael Gaston. Set in the 1930's Iowa, where the Cora's family live as the community's only African-Americans. and supported only by Cora's being a housekeeper to the Studevants.
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- Drama
- Deborah Pratt
- 2000-10-25
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Analysis: “Cora Unashamed”. Langston Hughes saw in the Harlem Renaissance a growing acceptance of African American writers and culture, creating space for him and other artists to express their identity without fear or shame. The movement’s efforts to garner support and acceptance for the African American identity required first exposing ...
Cora Jenkins. The story’s protagonist is Cora Jenkins, a 40-year-old African American woman living in a predominantly white, rural town. Hughes writes little of her physical appearance, apart from specifying her race. She has lived in the town of Melton all her life. The narrator’s statement that she’ll probably die there signifies her ...
