Discussion

The refference book is "The Bedford Anthology of American Literature by Susan Belasco. Reading is James Welden Johnson,pp.570-575; George Douglas Johnson,pp.595-598; Claude McKay,pp. 704-709; Sterling A Brown,pp.745-752; Langston Hughes,pp 752-765; Countee Cullen,pp. 765-771. Assignment: Discuss in these poems themes of racial identity, alienation, and the place of African Americans within American society.