Negro Dancers
Negro Dancers - meaning Summary
Two Ways to Dance
Langston Hughes' short poem celebrates Black joy and performance through a playful refrain about doing the Charleston. It pictures a cabaret where "brown-skin steppers" move confidently under soft light and music, while white onlookers react with laughter and prayerful unease. The poem contrasts exuberant, embodied pleasure with external, racialized spectatorship, using repetition and dialect to convey communal rhythm and resilient affirmation in a segregated social scene.
Read Complete Analyses"Me an' ma baby's Got two mo' ways, Two mo' ways to do de Charleston!" Da, da, Da, da, da! Two mo' ways to do de Charleston!" Soft light on the tables, Music gay, Brown-skin steppers In a cabaret. White folks, laugh! White folks, pray! "Me an' ma baby's Got two mo' ways, Two mo' ways to do de Charleston!"
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