Race can be discussed as the factor which is used to accentuate the person’s otherness and specific identity. Although such works as William Shakespeare’s Othello, Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” and Langston Hughes’s “Negro” are rather different in their genre, structure, and idea, these three works discuss the same theme of race. To understand the role of race as one of the main themes presented in the works, it is necessary to analyse the authors’ approaches to discussing the topic in detail. Although Hughes in his “Negro” discusses race as the main source for the character’s identity and attempts to accentuate the role of the black race for the whole world history, Shakespeare in Othello and Welty in “A Worn Path” are inclined to provide the emphasis on the characters’ race as the explanation to their behaviours and actions; thus, the concept of race in the tragedy and the short story can be discussed as having the hidden meaning. In “Negro,” Hughes states his racial identity openly while drawing the audience’s attention to this fact. Thus, Hughes declares in the first line of the poem, “I am a Negro” (Hughes 1). This self-identification is necessary to support the idea that the character is proud of his race, and he discusses his race as important for the whole world’s history and development. Hughes states that being a Negro means to be a slave, a worker, a singer, and a victim, but the reader can note that the emphasised self-identification is necessary to support the idea that the character’s race is the real reason for his pride. Culp notes that it is characteristic for Hughes to discuss his race as the source of pride because of his identity. In this case, Hughes plays the role of “the spirit of his race” (Culp, 240). To accentuate the role of the black race for the world’s history, Hughes uses the metaphorical similes and the night imagery to stress on the character’s blackness, “Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa” (Hughes 2-3, 18-19; Jackson 90). Hughes also uses the allusions to Julius Caeser and George Washington to emphasise the historical significance of the black race (Hughes 5, 6). Even though Hughes accentuates that the blacks were slaves and victims, his short metaphorical representation of the African American history within the world context can be discussed as the author’s focus on the special role of the blacks in the history. If the black identity is openly discussed in Hughes’s “Negro,” and it becomes the main theme of the poem, the race plays the more subtle and vague role in Shakespeare’s Othello. Shakespeare’s main character Othello is a black, the Moor, but the role of his race for the tragedy’s plot and characters’ behaviours is not obvious. On the one hand, Othello’s race is not accentuated, and the character is depicted equally to the other characters in the tragedy while being “great of heart” (Shakespeare 5.2.359). On the other hand, Othello’s racial identity can be discussed as that force, which makes him act decisively and brutally. The role of the race in the tragedy can also be discussed while referring to the presence of the racial discussions in Othello . Thus, the statement of the Duke “If virtue no fair beauty lack, / Your son in