Question

In her essay "What White Publishers Won’t Print," Zora Neale Hurston argues that publishers will not print stories about educated minorities because readers will not believe that these people even exist. Would the person that Countee Cullen describes in his poem "For a Lady I Know" be similar to the kind of reader Hurston writes about?

Answer 1

Answer:

Yes, the person described by Cullen in his poem will be similar to the kind of reader Hurston writes about.

Explanation:

In the essay by Zora Neale Hurston, she argues that many White publishers failed to write about the Black minorities, thus masking useful insight and knowledge of these people from the world.

In Cullen's poem, he writes about a certain White woman who believes that there would be class distinction even in heaven. While the whites sleep and snore, the slaves wake up to do the chores. This woman has a lopsided view of minorities. Similarly, the readers who would not even believe in the existence of minorities hold a lopsided view of them.