Which Sin to Bear? highlights how Langston Hughes struggled with the tension between genuine artistic meaning and commercial concessions throughout his prolific career.

David E. Chinitz is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. His publications include T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide and The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, Vol. 6 (1940-1946).

Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1. Becoming Langston Hughes
2. Producing Authentic Blackness
3. Authenticity in the Blues Poetry
4. The Ethics of Compromise
5. Simple Goes to Washington: Hughes and the McCarthy Committee
6. "Speak to me now of compromise": Hughes and the Specter of Booker T.
Appendix A: Hughes's Senate Testimony in Executive Session
Appendix B: Hughes's Public Testimony
Bibliography
Index