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This Negro
Calverton, V. F. | August 6, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Not Without Laughter," by Langston Hughes. The book continues the healthy note begun in Negro fiction by authors Claude McKay and Rudolph Fisher. Instead of picturing the Negro of upper classes, the Negro who in too many instances has been converted to white norms, who even apes white manners and white morality and condemns Negroes found in this novel as "niggers," McKay, Fisher and Hughes have depicted the Negro in his more natural and more fascinating form. There can be no doubt that the Negro who has made great contributions to American culture is this type of Negro, the Negro who has brought us his blues, his labor songs, his spirituals, his folklore and his jazz.

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NOT Without Laughter (Book); HUGHES, Langston; MCKAY, Claude, 1890-1948; FISHER, Rudolph; AFRICAN Americans; AMERICAN fiction -- African American authors; FOLKLORE; WORKING class -- Songs & music; JAZZ
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