[PW] Re: Piece by Langston Hughes/Jesse B. Semple - "white man's but".

[Shari Haber]

Karl-

Jesse B. Semple (sometimes called "Simple) was a character in several
stories by Langston Hughes. I'm not exactly sure in which one you can
find "white man's buts" though.

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

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> This question comes from a school teacher via his school librarian.
>
> The
> teacher remembers reading a work that he believes was by Langston
Hughes,
> possibly written under the pen name of Jesse B. Semple.  It may have
been
> a letter to the editor or essay, or may have been a poem, but he seems
to
> think it was prose.
>
> His only concrete recollection is that the phrase "white
> man's but" recurs in the piece several times, in reference to whites
offering
> something to blacks with a condition, a "but".
>
> Does this ring any bells,
> W0mbats?  So far, we have tried LitFinder, Google, and Academic Search
Elite.
>
>
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> Karl G. Siewert, Librarian and Yoyologist
> Tulsa, OK
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