| Description |
xlii, 552 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-524) and index. |
| Contents |
Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The closing door / Angelina Weld Grimké -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- The comet / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The foolish and the wise : Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates -- The foolish and the wise : Sanctum 777 N.S.D.C.O.U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Becky ; Esther / Jean Toomer -- Vignettes of the dusk / Eric Walrond -- Blue aloes ; Slackened caprice / Ottie B. Graham -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The golden penknife / S. Miller Johnson -- Mademoiselle 'Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Grist in the mill / Wallace Thurman -- Hannah Byde / Dorothy West -- Muttsy ; The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- Cordelia the crude / Wallace Thurman -- Smoke, lilies and jade / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Wedding day / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- City love / Eric Walrond -- Lynching for profit / George S. Schuyler -- Highball / Claude McKay -- Game / Eugene Gordon -- Masks / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- He must think it out / Florida Ruffin Ridley -- Anthropoi / John F. Matheus -- Prologue to a life / Dorothy West -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Door-stops / May Miller -- Cross crossings cautiously / Anita Scott Coleman -- Why Adam ate the apple / Mercedes Gilbert -- The needle's point / J. Saunders Redding -- Crazy Mary / Claude McKay -- His last day / Chester Himes -- A summer tragedy ; Barrel staves / Arna Bontemps -- Why, you reckon ; Spanish blood / Langston Hughes -- John Archer's nose / Rudolph Fisher -- Mob madness / Marion Vera Cuthbert -- Gesture / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Pope Pius the only / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Silt / Richard Wright -- The return of a modern prodigal / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Hate is nothing ; The whipping / Marita Bonner -- A modern fable / Chester Himes -- A matter of record / Ted Posten -- Girl, colored / Marian Minus. |
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Short stories, American.
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American fiction -- African American authors.
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American fiction -- New York (State) -- New York.
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American fiction -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Harlem Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Gable, Craig, 1967-
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| ISBN |
0253343984 alkaline paper |
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9780253343987 alkaline paper |
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0253216753 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780253216755 paperback alkaline paper |
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