Tag: Arthur P. Davis

  • The Tragic Mulatto Theme in Six Works of Langston Hughes Phylon (1940-1956) Volume 16, Number 2 (2nd Qtr., 1955) pages 195-204 Arthur P. Davis (1904-1996) The Weary Blues (1925), the first publication of Langston Hughes, contained a provocative twelve-line poem entitled “Cross,” which dealt with the tragic mulatto theme. Two years later when Mr. Hughes brought…