Diversity In Langston Hughes Mulatto

The answer is yes, we can change. And we are changing, just, not as drastically as the times we are in are. With the growing technology and forms of communication the media itself has not developed as rapidly as the technology platforms that it uses. Going on to the internet anyone can connect with anyone from almost anywhere. You can have friends all over the world, from different backgrounds and different lifestyles. You can learn about so much from media sites like tumblr or twitter, so why do media prints like newspapers, magazines, and online blogs or television shows and movies, not reflect the amount of diversity there is?
Octavia Spencer was interviewed by Buzzfeed on March thirteenth. When talking about diversity in the media she is quoted, “There’s more than the five or six of us — Kerry, Viola, myself, Taraji, Nicole Beharie. There are so many more women and men who …show more content…
I had an assignment in my class to read a play by Langston Hughes. Mulatto. I accidentally forgot my book one day and I was looking to see if there was a PDF copy that I could use online. What did I find? Nothing. Well, not nothing, but not much either. Langston Hughes’ Mulatto is about a white slave owner, Colonel Norwood, and his slaves. In this play Norwood is very progressive, he allows his slave Cora to live in his house with him, and he brings in teachers for her children. He is fighting slavery, without admitting to himself what he is doing. Why is it hard for me to find a copy of this online, or even find a summary? Is it because Mulatto was written in the 1930s and it is too old? If that were the case I would not be able to find any slave narratives online either, but those I can find. We like to mask what we do not like about our history. So, portraying a narrative like Mulatto is not something that we like because we do not enjoy admitting that we had slavery in this country—that we still have