According to a different source, this question refers to the essay "How It Feels to be Colored Me" by Zora Neale Hurston and the poem "Freedom's Plow" by Langston Hughes.
In both of these texts, the authors focus on the challenges and difficulties that black people in the United States face. Both authors argue that African Americans do not enjoy the same liberties and opportunities as white people. Their style is one that highlights the talents and contributions that black people have, but that also calls attention to the unique characteristics that they share as a community. These topic exemplify the ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, during which African Americans wanted to show how they could produce a unique type of art of great quality.
Answer:
The relation between the Hurston's essay and the Hughes poem in the signifcant in this regard.
Explanation:
Langston Hughes believed in creating black art. In his famous essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" he argued it's impossible to separate the artist from his or her art, so literature, in this case, created by African-Americans is "negro art." The Harlem Renaissance, which occurred in the 1910s and lasted to the mid-1930s, was an era in which African Americans created art—music, literature, artwork—that represented the black experience. Hughes's masterful "The Weary Blues" explores two of the most dominant forms of expression in this era: poetry and blues.
