Week 7

1. Why does George Schuyler, an African American socialist, in “The

Negro-Art Hokum,” claim that “Negro art ‘made in America’ is

“non-existent”?

2. What does Schuyler mean when he describe “Coleridge-Taylor, Edward W.

Blyden ” as “Negroes; yet their work shows the impress of nationality

rather than race”? Is their color, in fact, “incidental,” as he

claims?

3. In Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,”

what does he mean by the “racial mountain”?

4. Explain Hughes’s class hierarchy among African Americans? Do you agree

or disagree? What does he mean by a black person “not afraid to be

himself” or whether or not a black person is “Negro enough”? Does

this contradict Schuyler’s article, published in the same magazine, The

Nation only a week before?