Resources

ABevs, “Freedom Road-Josh White,” YouTube video, 2:19, March 24, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFf9gDNbi-Q

Beinecke Library at Yale, “From Freedom’s Plow By Langston Hughes, read by Willie Jennings,” YouTube video, 2:06, November 2. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIenk2KafDc

Berry, Faith. Before & Beyond Harlem: Biography of Langston Hughes. New York: Lawrence Hill and Company, 1983.

Best, Wallace. “Looking for Langston: Themes, Religion, Sexuality, and Evasion in the Life and Work of Langston Hughes.” The Langston Hughes Review 25, no. 1 (2019): 28-40. 

Davey, Elizabeth. “Building a Black Audience in the 1930s: Langston Hughes, Poetry Readings, and the Golden Stair Press.” In Print Culture in a Diverse America, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, 223-243. University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Hughes, Langston and Arna Bontemps. Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967. New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 1980. 

Hughes, Langston, and Carl Van Vechten. Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. Edited by Emily Bernard. New York: Vintage Books, 2002. 

Hughes, Langston. I Wonder as I Wander. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. (reprint of 1956 memoir)

Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993. (reprint of 1940 memoir)

Hughes, Langston. The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes. Edited by Arnold Rampersad, David Roessel, and Christa Fratantoro. New York: Knopf, 2015.

Hughes, Langston. The Selected Poems of Langston Hughes. Vintage Classics, 1990. 

Jones, Meta. “Listening to What the Ear Demands: Langston Hughes and His Critics.” Callaloo 25, no. 4 (2002): 1144-1175.

Nielsen, Erik. “A ‘High Tension’ in Langston Hughes’s Musical Verse.” MELUS  37, no. 4 (2012): 165-185.

Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Rampersad, Arnold. “Religion in the Life of Langston Hughes.” The Langston Hughes Review 25, no. 1 (2019): 6-27.

Sanders, Leslie Catherine, and Nancy Johnston, eds. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, volume 5, The Plays to 1942. University of Missouri, 2002.

Vogel, Shane. “Closing Time: Langston Hughes and the Poetics of Harlem Nightlife.” Criticism 48, no. 3 (2006): 397-425.

External Links

Finding aid for Langston Hughes ephemera collection at the University of Delaware Libary

Langston Hughes ephemera digital collection at the University of Delaware Libarary (UDSpace)

Langston Hughes, Papers, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Library of America Live, "Poet of the People: The Greatness of Langston Hughes," A Conversation with Brent Hayes Edwards and Rafia Zafar

Langston Hughes Review (also on JSTOR)

Langston Hughes Papers, Kenneth Spencer Research Library Archival Collections, University of Kansas

Langston Hughes Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Langston Hughes Collection from the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University

Johns Hopkins Langston Hughes Collection, Johns Hopkins Library