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The chief purpose of this paper is to present the experience of African-American poet Langston Hughes through the realms of racial humiliation to recognition among the white. The present research work is an attempt to exhibit the poet how he acquires recognition in America after passing through different stages of crisis vis-à-vis self-identity. The credit of nourishing the black literature and inventing the cultural integration goes to James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967). A streak note of racial humiliation and struggle for self –recognition runs through the whole poetry of Langston Hughes. The feelings of racial humiliation, struggle for self-recognition and discrimination lands the poet into a world of double consciousness in which the poet always hangs in doubt whether he thinks himself an American or an Outsider.