The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” In (1926) was a short essay written by poet Langston Hughes for The Nation magazine. It became the manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance. In it Hughes said that black artists in America should stop copying whites, that they will never create anything great that way. Instead they should be proud of who they are, proud to be black, and draw from black culture. Not “white is right” but, as we would now say, “Black is beautiful”.
Answer:
Tom found the memory box, which was for the baby, on the dusty closet shelf.
Explanation:
The sentence contains a squinting modifier, which is a kind of misplaced modifier. It creates ambiguity and confusion because it is not clear which item it modifies: whether the previous or the following phrase. In the sentence, the squinting modifier <em>for the baby</em> can refer to <em>the memory box for the baby</em> or <em>for the baby on the dusty closet shelf, </em>making two possible different meanings for the same sentence.
