description: One of his best-known works, Hughes wrote 
  The Ways of White Folks
 while living in Carmel, California. In it, he shares acrid and poignant stories of blacks colliding--sometimes humorously, but often tragically--with whites throughout the 1920s and 1930s.The book consists of fourteen moving stories:"Cora Unashamed""Slave on the Block""Home""Passing""A Good Job Gone""Rejuvenation Through Joy""The Blues I'm Playing""Red-Headed Baby""Poor Little Black Fellow""Little Dog""Berry""Mother and Child""One Christmas Eve""Father and Son"
language: English
title: The Ways of White Folks
titlecomplete: The Ways of White Folks
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry, Social Justice, African American Literature, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 4913
publisher: Random House Inc