Research Catalog

Title

Simple stakes a claim / by Langston Hughes.

Author

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Publication

• New York : Rinehart & Company, Inc. ; Toronto : Clarke, Irvine, & Company, Ltd., [1957]
• ©1957

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Costigan, Tom

Description

191 pages; 20 cm

Subjects

• New York (State)
• United States
• African Americans
• Fiction
• New York (State) > New York > Harlem
• Race relations
• United States > Race relations > Fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
• Simple (Fictitious character) > Fiction
• African Americans > New York (State) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Authors' presentation copies

Indexed In (note)

• Dickinson, D.C. Bio-bibliography of Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 (Second edition, revised)

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Provenance (note)

• Inscribed by the author on first free endpaper to Tom Costigan, a reporter and producer based in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem. In original dust jacket.

Contents

Foreword: let's laugh a little -- Simple's platform -- Bang-up big end -- Big round world -- Duty is not snooty -- Great but late -- Bones, bombs, chicken neck -- A dog named Trilby -- Enter Cousin Minnie -- radioactive redcaps -- Face and race -- Two sides not enough -- Great day -- With all deliberate speed -- Puerto Ricans -- Depression in the cards-- The atomic age -- Minnie again -- Sketch for TV -- Sex in front -- Out-loud silent -- Color on the brain -- New kind of dozens -- vicious circle -- Jim Crow's funeral -- Again cousin Minnie -- cellophane bandannas -- Negroes and vacations -- Only human -- Name in print -- Golfing and golfing -- Reason and right -- Mississippi fists -- Minnie one more time -- Simple stashes back -- An auto-obituary -- Four-way celebrations -- Be broad-minded, please! -- Grammar and goodness -- Chips on the shoulder -- Jazz, jive and jam.

LCCN

57009628

OCLC

• ocm00978908
• SCSB-8903123

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library