Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes proves himself one of modern literature’s most revered and versatile African-American authors with Not Without Laughter, a powerful classic novel. This is a moving portrait of African-American family life in 1930s Kansas, following young Sandy Rogers as he comes of age. Sandy’s mother, Annjee, works as a housekeeper for a rich white family, while his father, traverses the country in search of work. Not Without Laughter is a moving examination of growing up in a racially divided society. A rich and important work, Hughes deftly echoes the black American experience with this novel.

Not Without Laughter

Biographies & Memoirs

Langston Hughes

Arts & Literature

Scribner

Literature & Fiction

United States

Scribner Paper Fiction

Rhythm is something we share in common, you and I, with all the plants and animals and people in the world, and with the stars and moon and sun, and all the whole vast wonderful universe beyond this wonderful earth which is our home." In this beautifully designed book, Langston Hughes shares an appreciation of the rhythms of life--from visual patterns that catch the eye to rhythms in nature like the beating of a human heart, the pulse of the ocean, and the turning of the planets. With the keen eye of an artist and the perception of a poet, Hughes finds the seeds of rhythm in the slow flowing of the Mississippi River, the even slap-slap-slap of a jump rope, the swoop of a swing, and the steadiness of Grandma's rocking. He relishes the rhythms of nature in the opening of a many petaled rose or the intricacy of a snowflake. He calls up images and offers examples even the youngest reader will understand--clapping the rhythm of a favorite song, scrutinizing the lines and wrinkles of our hands, even examining the dining room chairs for "charming and graceful rhythms." Originally published in 1954, this new edition offers original illustrations, an introduction by musician Wynton Marsalis, and an afterword by Hughes scholar Robert G. O'Meally. Read it aloud to the youngest children as they become aware of the diversity of the world. Older children will delight in the varied and offbeat exercises and examples, and all ages will be touched by Hughes's zest for rhythm and for life itself.

The Book of Rhythms (The ^AIona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Oxford University Press

Black Misery was first published in 1969, but the gentle, funny, and sometimes melancholy words of Langston Hughes still cause a blink of recognition. After 25 years, it remains relevant in our own time. As you turn the pages you may say, "I remember feeling like that!" You may say, "I feel like that now." As you look at Arouni's black and white illustrations and read the short but powerful one sentence captions, you feel the predicament of a black child adjusting to the new world of integration of the 1960s. You feel the mix of hope and dismay that characterized the decade. Langston Hughes was a writer who often made his readers ask hard questions about life. In Black Misery he wrote about prejudice and indifference, but he wrote with humor and compassion. Today--just as we did 25 years ago-we smile and even laugh, and we also understand that some things are more than hard, are more than sad. They are pure misery. Black Misery was the last book that Langston Hughes wrote. He died in May 1967, while working on the manuscript.

Black Misery (The Opie Library) (The ^AIona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature)

Tambourines to Glory, Soul Gone Home, Little Ham, Mulatto, and Simply Heavenly reflect the black author's concern with the position of the Negro in the United States

Five Plays by Langston Hughes

Webster Smalley

Dramas & Plays

Indiana University Press

Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book, presents the vast, sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians, the singers and the dancers, the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the late 1960s. Long considered the most comprehensive history of African-Americans in the performing arts, this milestone in black history features hundreds of rare and beautiful illustrations. Covering both the obstacles to achievement that these artists faced, and their eventual triumph, Black Magic—long out-of-print—is an essential book of American history.

Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts

milton-meltzer

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo Press

This unique new thematic composition reader brings together 6 key texts from the past and multiple contemporary reverberations to engage students in some of today’s most significant cultural conversations.

Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past

Politics & Social Sciences

ALICE WALKER

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

AUDRE LORDE

BELL HOOKS

W.E.B. Du Bois

Virginia, Woolf

Anthropology

Bedford/St.Martin's

World of Music 5 Teacher Edition Silver Burdett &amp; Ginn [Teacher's Edition] by Jane Beethoven, Jennifer Davidson, Catherine Nadon Gabrion, E. Yeh Shure, Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston, Kiang Kang Hu, Langston Hughes, Marian J. Rosenzweig, Efraim M. Rosenzweig, Nancy Byrd Turner, Silver Burdett Ginn, Carmino Ravosa, Phyllis Weikart, Darrell Bledsoe, William Morrow, Louise Abeita Chiwiwi, Macmillan Publishing, Alfred A. Knopf, Katherine Ace, Don Dyen, Gretchen Shields, Arvis Stewart, Walt Sturrock, David Wenzel, David Wisniewski, Elizabeth Crews, Ellis Herwig, Ray Manley, N. Phelps Stokes, George E. Jones III, E.R. Degginger, Julius Fekete, Robert Frerck, John Messina, Lynn Goldsmith, Witter Bynner. Spiral-Bound 1990 Printing by Silver Burdett Ginn. Second Edition. 500 Pages. ISBN 0382182928. EAN 9780382182921. MPN 8816A05. In English. Special Limited Edition.

World of Music 5 Teacher Edition Silver Burdett & Ginn (Spiral-Bound 1990 Printing, Second Edition)

Education & Teaching

Jane Beethoven

Jennifer Davidson

Catherine Nadon-Gabrion

E. Yeh Shure

Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston

Kiang Kang Hu

Marian J. Rosenzweig

Efraim M. Rosenzweig

Nancy Byrd Turner

Schools & Teaching

Silver, Burdett, Ginn

Compelling, intriguing and well narrated facts

Don't You Turn Back

Alfred.A. Knopf

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