I am a Negro

Les élèves de 1ère L ont étudié un poème de Langston Hughes dans le cadre d'une séquence pédagogique sur l'identité africaine-américaine. Ils devaient interpréter, expliquer, et illustrer ce poème. Voici quelques unes de leurs productions, ainsi que le poème.

I am a Negro:

Black as the night is black,

Black like the depths of my Africa.

I’ve been a slave:

Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean.

I brushed the boots of Washington.

I’ve been a worker:

Under my hand the pyramids arose.

I made mortar for the Woolworth Building.

I’ve been a singer:

All the way from Africa to Georgia

I carried my sorrow songs.

I made ragtime.

I’ve been a victim:

The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.

They lynch me still in Mississippi.

I am a Negro:

Black as the night is black,

Black like the depths of my Africa.

Langston Hughes, “Negro”, 1922