Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Hughes in Our Time -- Langston Hughes, 1902-1967: A Brief Biography -- HUGHES IN HIS TIME -- The Poet Speaks of Places: A Close Reading of Langston Hughes's Literary Use of Place -- Langston Hughes and Afro-American Vernacular Music -- Hughes and Twentieth-Century Genderracial Issues -- The Adventures of a Social Poet: Langston Hughes from the Popular Front to Black Power -- Illustrated Chronology -- Bibliographical Essay -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.