Homework Questions:

• What is Hughes's main thesis? Where does Hughes present it?
• With whose argument is Hughes's more closely related, Washington's or Du Bois's?  Explain.

• What characterized "mid-Victorian England"?  In what ways did the schools visited by Hughes reflect these characteristics (i.e. what specific supporting details does Hughes include)?

• What is an "Uncle Tom"? In what ways, according to Hughes, did the schools he visited produce such people (again, what specific examples does he use)?

• Explain:  "One feels sure the race's emancipation will never come through its intellectuals" (63).

• What is a Jim Crow center?