{"id":909,"date":"2020-12-06T20:54:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T20:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-africanamericanlit\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=909"},"modified":"2021-04-13T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:36:10","slug":"langston-hughes-the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-africanamericanlit\/chapter\/langston-hughes-the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain\/","title":{"raw":"Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain","rendered":"Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"},"content":{"raw":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69395\/the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain\">https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/articles\/69395\/the-negro-artist-and-the-racial-mountain<\/a>\r\n\r\nHughes's essay is one of the cornerstone pieces to an exploration of identity and race in American 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