Personally I think Langston Hughes gives a perfect example of how higher whites view blacks academically in his poem, “Theme for English B”. He has a somewhat defensive attitude in his poem towards the instructor about how black can enjoy and like the same things as a common white person may enjoy. Langston uses a defensive tone throughout the poem about his equality to the common white american. He shows this his love of Bessie and how just because of his race doesn’t it mean it prohibits him from listening to certain types of music in comparison to any other person white or not. Every single human being deserves to listen and enjoy whatever they may like. He feels like he is not it important to the american society as a whole due
