During the Harlem Renaissance a new feeling of racial pride emerged in the Black Intelligential. The Black Intelligential consisted of African-American writers, poets, philosophers, historians, and artists whose expertise conveyed five central themes according to Sterling Brown, a writer of that tim...

Dino Subasic Mrs. Forcier 18 February, 1999 Langston Hughes "Hughes' efforts to create a poetry that truly evoked the spirit of Black America involved a resolution of conflicts centering around the problem of identity" (Smith 358). No African American poet, writer, and novelist has eve...