s and as members of an inferior race; to the new, in which blacks recognized their own existence as a race and they articulated that existence and that culture through the arts. Then, its no surprise that whites embraces the black culture so adamantly.Notables such as DuBois, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, and Martin Luther King have helped to define the beauty, intellectual, and admirable qualities that blacks, for so long were denied to express. Their determination has engendered a continuous respect for African-Americans through famous blacks today like, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Toni Morrison, and Ray Charles. Blacks no longer have to deal with the concept of a double conscious.The double conscious, being the conflict of black’s self-perception. One in which they cannot separate their African and American backgrounds. The black artist in today’s society, whether a writer, a singer, or an athlete doesn’t necessarily have to worry about the racial mountain, the urge within the black race toward whiteness, because whites now find themselves gravitating toward the black art aesthetic. They wish to experience who we are as a people and finally see that American side united with the African side that blacks in the past could not identify with. ...
