The statement I, Too, Am America, found in the last line of I, Too, Sing America is showing the author's stand on racial prejudice. Langston Hughes (the author, a black man, and profound writer during the Harlem Renaissance ) feels that even though white people discriminate against him because he is black, he is still American. That even though he is black and they are white, they have no right to give him separate rights and treat him differently, as if he were an alien or a young child.Hughes is also trying to comfort, by saying that even though he (blacks) may feel and be treated like an outcast or someone who doesn't think and feel the way the others (whites) do, they all have something in common: They all are Americans. They all are America.And no matter what new way of discrimination comes our way, one thing will unite us all, now and forever, because I Too Am America.

 For more information on the Harlem Renaissance, visit the Encarta Web site on Harlem Renaissance at
                  http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/harlem/harlem.asp

  For more information on Langston Hughes, visit the Academy of American Poets at
                    http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=84

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