Christopher C. De Santis Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of English Illinois State University ccdesan@ilstu.edu
LINKS Curriculum Vitae The Collected Works of Langston Hughes Beinecke Library Langston Hughes Exhibit ISU English Department Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs Fight for Freedom and Other Writings on Civil Rights Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender	"The past is never dead. It's not even past." --William Faulkner Course Syllabi Foundations of Inquiry (Fall 2002) The Harlem Renaissance Race, Nation, and Reaction African American Writers in the Age of Reaction "Race" in the Making of the American Novel African American Literature African American Literary Criticism and Theory

Background: A. R. Waud, "The First Vote" (Harper's Weekly, November 16, 1867)