“黑人桂冠诗人”兰斯顿·休斯自从出版了他的第一部诗集《疲惫的布鲁斯》起,便成为了用诗阐释美国黑人生活的权威。本文将对休斯诗作中频频出现的“梦”这一主题进行解析,以探讨休斯的黑人“新美国梦”的核心与本质及其对传统“美国梦”的质疑与挑战。 “Black laureate poet” Langston Hughes, since his first book, “Weary Bruce,” has been published, has become the authority to use poetry to illustrate the lives of African Americans. This article will analyze the theme of “Dream”, a frequent occurrence in Hughes poetry, in order to probe into the core and nature of Hughes’ black New American Dream and its challenge and challenge to the traditional American Dream.