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: In his essay The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain , Langston Hughes advocated for Black artists to express their "individual dark-skinned selves" without fear or shame, rejecting both white expectations and Black middle-class pressures to be "respectable" [14, 17]. Origins & Linguistic Shift

A modern scholarly look at early Black authorship and "failed" literary projects [1, 10]. : In his essay The Negro Artist and

: The word is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese word for the color black , which stems from the Latin niger [25]. : In his essay The Negro Artist and

: While it was the preferred term for much of the 20th century, it was largely replaced by " Black " during the 1960s Black Power Movement as a way to reclaim identity and counter historical labels [26]. : In his essay The Negro Artist and