With the cultivation of African American worlds of music, theater, and art enshrined in the Harlem Renaissance, the incoming wave of black Americans "sought a new life outside the pressing animosity and judgments of the white race. (Hutchinson 4). Because of their deep insecurities produced by discrimination, African American poets sought to reconceptualize lost people as well as their lost dreams. Among these intellectuals, Langston Hughes invigorated the African-American community through the description of a profound aspect of society. the American Negro - his blackness. In Negro, Hughes emphasizes the universal racial entity that permeates the black community. In the first stanza, the speaker states, “I am a nigger” and follows the short statement with a colon, as if ready. to start a speech. He then presents a more detailed meaning of the term "Negro": "black as the night is black.......black as the depths of my Africa (1-3). In just three lines, the speaker is described three times using “black,” and each time he uses similes to reinforce his blackness – “like the night” and “like my Africa When the speaker compares himself to the night, there is.” a more literal approach to the description because at night the atmospheric image that comes to mind is darkness or black However, when he compares Africa to its darkness, the literal meaning changes to a. more metaphorical meaning The speaker uses Africa to distinguish his ancestral lineage and African heritage which dates back to Africa's earliest civilizations before colonial imperialism. I was a slave" (4). Dating back to the slave trade, the ...... middle of paper ........" The repetitive "I was" adds to the current situation of the speaker. The speaker endured hardships because of his race. throughout his life and that of his ancestors. However, Hughes chooses to place the most critical statement at the beginning and end of the poem in order to implicitly state an essential truth: "We are in the skin we are in." black like the force and authentically black like our ancestors in Africa. » In this way, Hughes affirms the authentic blackness that all black Americas share. The “I” truly represents “we”: “We are Negroes, we have been workers and we have been slaves. " In all, with the narrative poem "Negro", Hughes seeks to instill in his global audience, but especially his black audience, a deep acceptance of their race, a spirit of pride in their blackness so that they can connect to their black entities.