The Feminine Representation of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes' novel Not Without Laughter works within the historically narrow framework of African American uplift ideology. Hughes implies Booker T. Washington's racial uplift ideology from Up From Slavery within Aunt Hager Williams. In addition, Hughes implies W.E.B. DuBois' racial uplift ideology from Souls of Black Folk within Tempy Siles. In both characters, he criticizes the ideologies. In addition, the ideologies work toward an initial construction of masculinity for Sandy, the protagonist, and ultimately undermine an argument for gender equality.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2010

Author dc:creator

• Mosley, Matthew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Bryant, Earle V.; Lackey, Kris
• Steeby, Elizabeth

• race
• African American
• Langston Hughes
• uplift
• masculinity
• gender
• blues
• DuBois
• Washington
• Souls of Black Folk
• Up from Slavery
• Harlem Renaissance
• middle-class
• ideology
• bourgeois

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1176

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2159