Describe the tone differences between Hair and Theme for English B and how it contributes to the differing overall stance of each author in light of white status measured above black status

Although Hair and Theme for English B both revolve on the issue of racism, their attitudes towards it are extremely different. In Hair, Malcolm X shows an angry and violent tone towards the matter. Although in the beginning of his memoir, he seemed excited and anxious to go through the change to have a white person’s hair, looking back on it, he was ashamed and irate towards white superiority. A primary reason for his aggressive attitude would be how many black people have admitted to the fact that white people are superior. He came to this realization by looking back on his painful experience to make his hair look pretty by white standards. While in Theme for English B, Langston Hughes has a passive, playful, and non-aggressive tone. With this tone, Langston Hughes shows that his stance towards white status superiority is rather peaceful. Though he wants equality just like Malcolm X, he prefers the two races to accept differences and not be racist. Although he continues to state the huge differences between himself and his white professor, which he is supposedly writing to, he also shows what he likes to prove that he isn’t any different than any other person despite the color of his skin. Instead of having an attitude of rebellion like Malcolm X, Langston Hughes wants blacks and whites to reconcile with each other. Hughes concluded with another symbol of how blacks and whites are equal. He concludes with how that they are all American, which is supposed to be the emblem of unity between blacks and whites.