In at least one hundred words, summarize "the negro artist and the racial mountain."

Langston Hughes's essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" is one of the most important essays written on American poetry and, also, the plight of African-American artists in the early 20th century. The essay serves as a manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance. In the essays Hughes said that African-American artists in America should stop copying whites in terms of philosophy and style, that they will never create anything important and landmark that way. Instead, Hughes suggests that Africa-American poets and artists should be proud of who they are and develop their ideas from African-American culture