| Edition |
Second and enlarged edition. |
| Description |
xlv, 736 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
On imagination ; To the University of Cambridge, in New England ; On being brought from Africa to America / Phillis Wheatley -- An address to Miss Phillis Wheatley / Jupiter Hammon -- Preamble : from Appeal / David Walker -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- To Eliza ; The art of a poet ; Slavery / George Horton -- Escape of Clotel : from Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown -- The right to criticize American institutions ; from My bondage and my freedom ; Nemesis ; Woman suffrage movement ; from Lecture on Haiti / Frederick Douglass -- from Autobiography of a fugitive Negro / Samuel Ward --The slave auction ; The slave mother ; Bury me in a free land / Frances Harper -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Go down Moses -- Joshua fit de battle of Jericho -- Steal away to Jesus -- Roll, Jordan, roll -- Crucifixion -- |
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The attitude of the American mind toward the Negro intellect / Alexander Crummell -- The Negro and the nation : from Black and white / T. Thomas Fortune -- A slave among slaves : from Up from slavery ; Speech at the Atlanta Exposition / Booker T. Washington -- The song of the smoke ; A litany of Atlanta ; Of the sorrow songs : from The souls of black folk ; Crime and lynching ; The souls of white folk : from Darkwater ; The comet : from Darkwater / William E.B. Du Bois -- Why be silent? / William Monroe Trotter -- The goophered grapevine / Charles W. Chesnutt -- An antebellum sermon ; We wear the mask ; The poet ; Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes ; The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- An open letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr. / Kelly Miller -- The watchers ; Rhapsody ; The Negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite -- The scarlet woman ; Aunt Jane Allen ; The old repair man / Fenton Johnson -- T'appin -- John Henry -- Bad man ballad -- The remnant : a sermon -- Backwater blues -- |
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Harlem : the culture capital / James Weldon Johnson -- Apropos of Africa ; The Negro spirituals / Alain Locke -- The principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association ; An appeal to the conscience of the black race to see itself ; Message from Atlanta prison / Marcus Garvey -- If we must die ; Flame-heart ; Boyhood in Jamaica / Claude McKay -- Song of the son ; Harvest song ; Avey / Jean Toomer -- Young gal's blues ; Song to a Negro wash-woman ; Dream variation ; The doors of life : from Not without laughter ; Simple discusses colleges and color ; Simple and the Rosenwald fund / Langston Hughes -- Nocturne at Bethesda ; from Black thunder / Arna Bontemps -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Long gone ; Slim in hell ; Southern road ; Strong men ; Sister Lou ; Negro folk expression : spirituals, seculars, ballads, and work songs / Sterling Brown -- Southern song ; Memory ; Childhood ; We have been believers / Margaret Walker Alexander -- |
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Dark symphony ; Zeta : from Harlem gallery / Melvin B. Tolson -- The Negro writer and his relationship to his roots / Saunders Redding -- Middle passage ; Tour 5 ; Veracruz ; The diver / Robert Hayden -- Piano after war ; Mentors ; The mother ; We real cool ; The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock ; Life for my child is simple ; Takes time : from In the Mecca ; An aspect of love, alive in the ice and fire : from Riot / Gwendolyn Brooks -- from Invisible man ; Brave words for a startling occasion / Ralph Ellison -- The black psyche / John O. Killens -- A letter from the South : from Nobody knows my name ; Beauford Delaney ; The rockpile / James Baldwin -- Dance of the Abakweta ; Visit of the professor of aesthetics ; Gold is the shade Esperanto ; And through the Caribbean Sea / Margaret Danner -- Facing the challenge of a new age / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Dinner at Diop's ; Towards a black aesthetic / Hoyt W. Fuller -- Status symbol ; Black jam for Dr. Negro ; Vive noir! ; The writers ; Conceptuality / Mari Evans -- Preface to a twenty volume suicide note ; A poem for black hearts ; State/ment / Amiri Baraka -- To Da-duh, in memoriam / Paule Marshall -- But he was cool ; Nigerian unity ; Bloodsmiles ; Mixed sketches / Haki Madhubuti -- |
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A clutch of social science fiction fiction : from The omni-Americans / Albert Murray -- Introduction : from The way of the new world : the black novel in America / Addison Gayle -- from Gather together in my name / Maya Angelou -- from The bluest eye / Toni Morrison -- from Mumbo jumbo / Ishmael Reed -- Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drug N Goods : from The sea birds are still alive / Toni Cade Bambara -- To hell with dying : from In love and trouble / Alice Walker -- Dear John, dear Coltrane ; We assume : on the death of our son, Reuben Masai Harper ; Photographs : a vision of massacre ; Caves / Michael S. Harper -- Ghost poem #4 ; Rhythm is a groove #2 ; Shine's city / Larry Neal -- Dahomey ; A woman speaks ; Rooming houses are old women / Audre Lorde -- He sees through stone ; The idea of ancestry ; The violent space ; For Langston Hughes / Etheridge Knight -- What happens ; Poem from the Empire State / June Jordan. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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African Americans -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Long, Richard A., 1927-2013.
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Collier, Eugenia W.
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| ISBN |
027100374X |
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9780271003740 |
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0271003766 (paperback) |
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9780271003764 (paperback) |
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