Title: The ways of white folks
First published: 1934
Description: The Ways of White Folks is a collection of short stories by Langston Hughes, published in 1934.[1] Hughes wrote the book during a year he spent living in Carmel, California.[2] The collection, "marked by pessimism about race relations, as well as a sardonic realism or, contextually: humorous racism,"[2] is among his best known works.[3] Like Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1899) and Wright's Uncle Tom's Children (1938), it is an example of a short story cycle.[4]

The collection consists of 14 short stories:[5]

    "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"
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, African Americans, Manners and customs, Poetry (poetic works by one author), African americans, fiction, Race relations, African americans--fiction, Ps3515.u274 w3 1990, 813/.52
Places: United States, Carmel California
People: African Americans
Time periods: 20th century