Critics and people within the poetry community were sharply critical of Hudson's use of a pseudonym; characterizing it as racist, an act of "yellowface" (like donning "blackface" in minstrel shows), or describing it as "literary fraud".
Critics and people within the poetry community were sharply critical of Hudson's use of a pseudonym; characterizing it as racist (like donning "blackface" in minstrel shows), or describing it as "literary fraud". Racist was an act of "yellowface".