Hughes and Blues: Double Consciousness

A small yet significant lawsuit in The Big Sea takes place subsequently Hughes becomes a doodly-squat on a merchant ship at the age of jack oak and takes his trip to Africa. As the ship arrives along the coast, Hughes writes that the lawful ere acquires a supplemental crowd of Africans, as the current crew he was with werent supposed to be up to(p) to stand the sun (Hughes 320). Hughes states this simplistically, as though thats the only angle to the regular crews reasoning.The sentence immediately following this oversimplified statement reads, Then I had an African boy to do my washing, my cleaning, and almost all my earn-as did everybody on board (Hughes 320). Considering Hughes fair(a) used the entire previous paragraph to describe his duties as seaman, it becomes self-explanatory to the reader that Hughes is sing the African boy oft In the office a white American would employ a minority to campaign their house, do their yard- or fieldwork, cook and clean, taking adva ntage of the boys need for money.Hughes accordingly Justifies using the African child as a sort of housekeeper by saying everyone else is doing it, and, The Africans stood both work an sun without difficulty, it seems (Hughes 320), and with those two lines, Hughes pretty much restates two of the original arguments for slavery. In Ramparts The Life of Longs Hughes, Hughes is occasionally depicted as dealing with the internal struggle of double consciousness, such as after the publication of his book of poems, Fine Clothes to the Jew.A collection of poems that, as Hughes describes first- handedly as, a better book than my first, because it was more impersonal, more about other nation than myself (Hughes 394). He considered the collection to be an honest glimpse into the world of black issues, and white America applauded the book. However, his black critics denounced it as garbage, and proclaimed Hughes to be (Ramped 140) and the poet Loretta of Harlem (Hughes 396).Hughes alliance with Charlotte Mason, or Godmother as she liked to be called, Is spotted with a few examples of double consciousness. Meeting Mason through Lain Locke, Hughes was immediately taken infra her wing in her effort to elevate African culture to its just place of honor (Ramped 147), and enlisted to create literary works of art. Seduced by the chance to work on his poetry and various writings without the uncertainty of poverty, Hughes went to work for Godmother in exchange for financial security, automaton an entire KICK Dates on Masons demands.Longs Hughes Tie was filled with examples of the tumultuous battle of double consciousness, from early conduct to old age, whether in Harlem or traveling around the world. His literature manages to look for both the assimilation of African-American into the Euro-American culture as well as the recognition and retention of the cultural aspects unique to the African- American community. Bibliography Ramped, Arnold. The Life of Longs Hughes. sore York Oxford UP, 1986. Print. Hughes, Longs. The Longs Hughes Reader. New York G. Brazier, 1958. Print