The ways of white folks

Author

Langston Hughes

Call Number

• FICTION HUGH (CEN)

Edition

Vintage classics ed.

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, 1990.

Physical Description

255 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary

In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.

Contents

• Cora unashamed
• Slave on the block
• Home
• Passing
• A good job gone
• Rejuvenation through joy
• The blues I'm playing
• Red-headed baby
• Poor little Black fellow
• Little dog
• Berry
• Mother and child
• One Christmas Eve
• Father and son.