Are there any themes that are the same in Hughes' works compared to "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker? Or are there multiple themes?

To add to the good points made by the previous poster, I'd
like to suggest a couple of specific themes:

1.
The duties of the black artist: Hughes' work is full of
questions about what the African American artist should or should not have to do. See,
for example, his famous essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." Walker's story
"Everyday Use" has a black artist in it, too -- Dee, who in many ways is the fictional
counterpart to Walker herself. Most readers don't like her, viewing her as betraying her
true heritage for something make-believe. I think that Hughes would support her, though.
Why should she have to stay down South? Stick to her given name and religion? And so
on.

2. Similar to #1, both Hughes and Walker point to
the conficts and tensions within black identity. In
Walker's story, for example, which is more "black": Christianity or Islam? Life in the
urban North or life in the rural South? etc. Hughes' poem "Theme for English B," along
with many of his other works, show similar conflicts or
tensions.

It's worth noting, of course, that the two
writers are from very different periods. To be more precise, Alice Walker is very far
removed from the Harlem Renaissance. The dates for the Harlem Renaissance vary a little,
but it's generally said to have ended by the mid-1930s. Walker's story "Everyday Use"
is published about 40 years after that, and this work is much more closely connected to
what's called the Black Arts Era (or Black Arts Movement) than it is to the Harlem
Renaissance.