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Overview. Published in 1934, The Ways of White Folks is Langston Hughes’s collection of 14 short stories focusing on race relations in the United States. With somber tales of struggle and violence, as well as moments of irony and humor, the collection addresses racism, economic disparity, and hope.
Summary. “Cora Unashamed” introduces forty-year-old Cora Jenkins’ life as one of the only Black persons in the rural town of Melton. Cora has a child with a White foreigner, Joe, out of wedlock. Upon realization of Cora’s pregnancy, Joe leaves town and Cora, forcing her to raise Josephine on her own.
- Langston Hughes
- 248 (first edition) / 272 (1990 paperback)
- 1934
- June 18th, 1934
The Ways of White Folks is a collection of short stories by renowned poet and novelist Langston Hughes. The collection was first published in the year 1934. Cora Unashamed tells the story of a young black woman called Cora Jenkins who lives in Melton, Iowa with her daughter, ill mother, and deadbeat dad.
Sep 5, 2023 · Robert Lang. | Certified Educator. Last Updated September 5, 2023. Langston Hughes’ The Ways of White Folks, a collection of fourteen short stories (often praised as his finest), was...
A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in the 1920s and ‘30s.One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes may be best known as a poet, but these stories showcase his talent ...
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Sep 5, 2023 · The Ways of White Folks, a collection of fourteen short stories by the writer Langston Hughes—was published in 1934. At the book's core is a sense of growing anger and resentment by African...
Story 14 Summary: “Father and Son” Colonel Thomas Norwood, a rich White Southerner, waits for his illegitimate son, Bert, to come home. For 30 years, the Colonel has had a secret relationship with Coralee Lewis , a Black woman who helps him run his estate.
