Summary Of The Poem Appropriate By Langston Hughes

When looking that the play, appropriate, through the lens of Hughes 's essay, you will find that Hughes 's message and ideology can be used in a broader sense that will encompass the Caucasian characters in the play. It is that even though people try to cast off and hide their heritage, you are still who your ancestors are.
The play appropriate by Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins tells a story about a Caucasian family that that has a lot of issues in their back story before the beginning of the play. Then, when cleaning out their father 's house they find out about their father 's secret life as a Ku Klux Klan member. Though it wasn 't presented like that at first, but the elephant in the room was about the signs that point to their father being a racist, …show more content…
This relates to Langston Hughes’s essay in that he references to the Negro artist not really belonging or pleasing both the black and the whites with his paintings, while staying true to himself and showing how things really are. Also, Hughes’s touches on the fact that “upper-class” blacks would try to appropriate themselves into the white culture and dismiss their heritage, so that they can have a sense of belonging in hopes of not being discriminated against and feeling better about themselves as their definition of self-worth and beauty has been …show more content…
This relates to Langston Hughes main idea that the middle-class blacks were trying to whiten themselves and their life so that they could be accepted by whites. In the process of whitening themselves, they turn their noses up at “low down folks” who were “too Negro”. If the question is answered in the terms of Langston Hughes, the answer would be that the urge to discriminate is an acculturated tendency. However, if you think about human nature, there is an innate reaction to stereotype a person as soon as you see them. This is something that we all do. The urge to discriminate stems from acting in accordance to a specific