![]() ![]() Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Souls of White Folk in Darkwater (1920), Hughes' Ways of White Folks explores a range of fraught psychosexual, familial and financial transactions across the color line, demonstrating 'the condescension, paternalism and hypocrisy of whites nationwide'" (Retman, "Langston Hughes' 'Rejuvenation Through Joy,'" 593). This breakthrough work is "a brilliant collection of satirical short stories composed in the wake of Hughes' rift with his wealthy white patron, Charlotte Osgood Mason… with his recent literary successes abroad and his growing distance from Mason, Hughes was emboldened to write Ways of White Folks… riffing on W.E.B. ![]() Octavo, original orange and black cloth.įirst edition of Hughes' influential first collection of stories that "set a new standard of excellence for Black writers," inscribed by him in his trademark green ink, "For E- G- Sincerely, Langston Hughes, New York, Sept. ![]() ![]() "ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL FIGURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE": PRESENTATION FIRST EDITION OF WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS, INSCRIBED BY LANGSTON HUGHES ![]()
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