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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

by: Gates, Henry Louis; McKay, Nellie Y.

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

by: Gates, Henry Louis; McKay, Nellie Y.

ISBN 13:
9780393959086
ISBN 10:
0393959082
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/01/1997
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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PREFACE: TALKING BOOKS

xxvii

(16)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xliii

THE VERNACULAR TRADITION

(126)

[Entries marked * are included on the Audio Companion]

SPIRITUALS

(11)

Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?

(1)

City Called Heaven

(1)

God's A-Gonna Trouble the Water

(1)

Walk Together Children

(1)

I Know Moon-Rise

(1)

I'm A-Rollin'

(1)

I Been Rebuked and I Been Scorned

(1)

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?*

(1)

Soon I Will Be Done *

(1)

No More Auction Block

(1)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

(1)

Steal Away to Jesus *

(1)

Go Down, Moses *

(1)

Been in the Storm So Long *

(1)

Oh, Freedom!

(1)

GOSPEL

(6)

This Little Light of Mine

(1)

Down by the Riverside

(2)

Freedom in the Air

(1)

Take My Hand, Precious Lord *

(1)

Peace Be Still

(1)

Stand by Me

(1)

THE BLUES

(15)

Yellow Dog Blues

(1)

St. Louis Blues *

(1)

Beale Street Blues

(1)

Down-Hearted Blues

(1)

See, See Rider *

(1)

Prove It on Me Blues

(1)

Gulf Coast Blues

(1)

Trouble in Mind

(1)

Backwater Blues *

(1)

In the House Blues

(1)

How Long Blues

(1)

Hellhound on My Trail

(1)

It's a Low Down Dirty Shame

(1)

Good Morning, Blues *

(1)

Sent for You Yesterday

(1)

Going to Chicago Blues

(1)

Fine and Mellow

(1)

Hoochie Coochie

(1)

Sunnyland *

(1)

SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS, BALLADS, AND WORK SONGS

(18)

SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS

(3)

[We raise de wheat]

(1)

Me and My Captain

(1)

Promises of Freedom

(1)

Jack and Dinah Want Freedom

(1)

Run, Nigger, Run

(1)

Learn to Count

(1)

Another Man Done Gone *

(1)

You May Go But This Will Bring You Back *

(1)

BALLADS

(11)

Poor Lazarus

(1)

The Signifying Monkey

(2)

Wild Negro Bill

(1)

John Henry *

(3)

Frankie and Johnny

(1)

Railroad Bill

(1)

Stackolee

(1)

Sinking of the Titanic

(1)

Shine and the Titanic

(1)

WORK SONGS

(3)

Pick a Bale of Cotton

(1)

Go Down, Old Hannah

(1)

Can't You Line It?

(1)

JAZZ

(5)

Andy Razaf: (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue? *

(1)

Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) *

(1)

King Pleasure: Parker's Mood *

(1)

RAP

(9)

Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

(1)

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message *

(3)

Public Enemy: Don't Believe the Hype

(3)

Queen Latifah: The Evil That Men Do

(1)

SERMONS

(33)

God

(1)

C.L. Franklin: The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest

(7)

Zora Neale Hurston: [Faith hasn't got no eyes]

(2)

Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream *

(3)

Martin Luther King: I've Been to the Mountaintop

(7)

Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet *

(12)

FOLKTALES

102

(25)

All God's Chillen Had Wings

103

(2)

Big Talk

105

(1)

Deer Hunting Story

106

(1)

How to Write a Letter

107

(1)

"Member Youse a Nigger"

107

(1)

"Ah'll Beatcher Makin' Money"

108

(3)

Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest

111

(1)

Why Women Always Take Advantage of Men

111

(3)

"De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard"

114

(1)

The Ventriloquist

114

(1)

You Talk Too Much, Anyhow

115

(1)

The King Buzzard

116

(1)

A Flying Fool

117

(1)

Bur Rabbit in Red Hill Churchyard

118

(1)

Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again

119

(1)

The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story

120

(1)

How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox

121

(2)

The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf

123

(2)

What the Rabbit Learned

125

(2)

THE LITERATURE OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: 1746-1865

127

(334)

LUCY TERRY (c. 1730-1821)

137

(1)

Bars Fight

137

(1)

OLAUDAH EQUIANO (c. 1745-1797)

138

(26)

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself

140

(24)

Volume I

140

(1)

Chapter I

141

(10)

Chapter II

151

(10)

From Chapter III

161

(3)

From Chapter IV

164

(1)

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753?-1784)

164

(14)

POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL

167

(2)

Preface

167

(1)

[Letter Sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher]

167

(1)

[To the Publick]

168

(1)

To Maecenas

169

(1)

To the University of Cambridge, in New-England

170

(1)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

171

(1)

On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770

171

(1)

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth

172

(1)

On Imagination

173

(2)

To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

175

(1)

To Samson Occom

176

(1)

To His Excellency General Washington

176

(2)

DAVID WALKER (1785-1830)

178

(12)

David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World

179

(11)

Preamble

179

(3)

Article I. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery

182

(8)

GEORGE MOSES HORTON (1797?-1883?)

190

(6)

The Lover's Farewell

191

(1)

On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom

192

(1)

Division of an Estate

193

(1)

The Creditor to His Proud Debtor

194

(1)

George Moses Horton, Myself

195

(1)

SOJOURNER TRUTH (1797-1883)

196

(5)

Ar'n't I a Woman? Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851

198

(3)

From The Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851

198

(1)

From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878

199

(2)

MARIA W. STEWART (1803-1879)

201

(6)

Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build

202

(2)

Introduction

202

(2)

Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall

204

(3)

HARRIET JACOBS (c. 1813-1897)

207

(38)

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

209

(36)

Preface

209

(1)

I. Childhood

210

(2)

II. The New Master and Mistress

212

(4)

V. The Trials of Girlhood

216

(2)

X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life

218

(4)

XIV. Another Link to Life

222

(2)

XVII. The Flight

224

(2)

XXI. The Loophole of Retreat

226

(3)

XXIX. Preparations for Escape

229

(6)

XXXIX. The Confession

235

(1)

XL. The Fugitive Slave Law

236

(4)

XLI. Free at Last

240

(5)

WILLIAM WELLS BROWN (1814?-1884)

245

(32)

Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave

247

(8)

Chapter V

247

(2)

From Chapter VI

249

(6)

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

255

(22)

Chapter I. The Negro Sale

255

(6)

Chapter II. Going to the South

261

(4)

Chapter IV. The Quadroon's Home

265

(2)

Chapter XV. To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave

267

(2)

Chapter XIX. Escape of Clotel

269

(8)

ADA [SARAH L. FORTEN] (1814-1898?)

277

(2)

Lines Suggested on Reading "An Appeal to Christian Women of the South,"

277

(2)

A. E. Grimke

HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET (1815-1882)

279

(7)

An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

280

(6)

VICTOR SEJOUR (1817-1874)

286

(13)

The Mulatto

287

(12)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1818-1895)

299

(102)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself

302

(67)

My Bondage and My Freedom

369

(10)

Chapter XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists

369

(4)

Chapter XXIV. Twenty-One Months in Great Britain

373

(6)

From What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852

379

(12)

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

391

(10)

Second Part From Chapter XV. Weighed in the Balance

391

(6)

Third Part Chapter I. Later Life

397

(4)

JAMES M. WHITFIELD (1822-1871)

401

(7)

America

402

(3)

Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String

405

(1)

Self-Reliance

406

(2)

FRANCES E. W. HARPER (1825-1911)

408

(31)

Ethiopia

412

(1)

Eliza Harris

412

(2)

The Slave Mother

414

(1)

Vashti

415

(2)

Bury Me in a Free Land

417

(1)

Aunt Chloe's Politics

418

(1)

Learning to Read

418

(1)

A Double Standard

419

(2)

Songs for the People

421

(1)

An Appeal to My Country Women

422

(1)

The Two Offers

423

(8)

Our Greatest Want

431

(1)

Fancy Etchings

432

(4)

[Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations]

432

(2)

[Dangerous Economies]

434

(2)

Woman's Political Future

436

(3)

HARRIET E. WILSON (1828?-1863?)

439

(22)

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North

441

(20)

Preface

441

(1)

Chapter I. Mag Smith, My Mother

441

(3)

Chapter II. My Father's Death

444

(3)

Chapter III. A New Home for Me

447

(5)

From Chapter VIII. Visitor and Departure

452

(3)

Chapter X. Perplexities.--Another Death

455

(3)

Chapter XII. The Winding Up of the Matter

458

(3)

LITERATURE OF THE RECONSTRUCTION TO THE NEW NEGRO RENAISSANCE: 1865-1919

461

(468)

CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE (1837-1914)

472

(16)

A Parting Hymn

473

(1)

Journals

474

(14)

From Journal One

474

(6)

From Journal Three

480

(8)

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915)

488

(34)

Up From Slavery

490

(32)

Chapter I. A Slave among Slaves

490

(8)

Chapter II. Boyhood Days

498

(7)

Chapter III. The Struggle for an Education

505

(8)

Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address

513

(9)

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858-1932)

522

(31)

The Goophered Grapevine

523

(9)

The Passing of Grandison

532

(13)

The Wife of His Youth

545

(8)

ANNA JULIA COOPER (1858?-1964)

553

(16)

Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race

554

(15)

PAULINE E. HOPKINS (1859-1930)

569

(26)

Contending Forces

570

(11)

Chapter VIII. The Sewing-Circle

570

(7)

Chapter XV. Will Smith's Defense of His Race

577

(4)

Famous Men of the Negro Race

581

(7)

Booker T. Washington

581

(7)

Famous Women of the Negro Race

588

(5)

Literary Workers (Frances E. W. Harper)

588

(5)

Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's Reply (March 1903)

593

(2)

IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT (1862-1931)

595

(11)

A Red Record

596

(10)

Chapter I. The Case Stated

596

(6)

Chapter X. The Remedy

602

(4)

W. E. B. DU BOIS (1868-1963)

606

(154)

A Litany of Atlanta

609

(3)

The Song of the Smoke

612

(1)

The Souls of Black Folk

613

(27)

The Damnation of Women

740

(12)

Criteria of Negro Art

752

(7)

Two Novels

759

(1)

JAMES D. CORROTHERS (1869-1917)

760

(6)

The Snapping of the Bow

762

(1)

Me 'n' Dunbar

763

(1)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

764

(1)

At the Closed Gate of Justice

764

(1)

An Indignation Dinner

765

(1)

JAMES WELDON JOHNSON (1871-1938)

766

(118)

Sence You Went Away

768

(1)

Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing

768

(1)

O Black and Unknown Bards

769

(1)

Fifty Years

770

(3)

Brothers

773

(2)

The Creation

775

(2)

My City

777

(1)

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

777

(84)

The Book of American Negro Poetry

861

(23)

Preface

861

(23)

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)

884

(22)

Ode to Ethiopia

886

(1)

Worn Out

887

(1)

A Negro Love Song

888

(1)

The Colored Soldiers

889

(2)

An Ante-Bellum Sermon

891

(2)

Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes

893

(1)

Not They Who Soar

894

(1)

When Malindy Sings

894

(2)

We Wear the Mask

896

(1)

Little Brown Baby

897

(1)

Her Thought and His

897

(1)

A Cabin Tale

898

(2)

Sympathy

900

(1)

Dinah Kneading Dough

901

(1)

The Haunted Oak

901

(2)

Douglass

903

(1)

Philosophy

903

(1)

Black Samson of Brandywine

904

(1)

The Poet

905

(1)

The Fourth of July and Race Outrages

905

(1)

SUTTON E. GRIGGS (1872-1933)

906

(8)

The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist

908

(6)

Chapter XIX. The Fugitives Flee Again

908

(3)

Chapter XX. The Blaze

911

(3)

ALICE MOORE DUNBAR NELSON (1875-1935)

914

(5)

Violets

915

(1)

I Sit and Sew

916

(1)

April Is on the Way

916

(2)

Violets

918

(1)

WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE (1878-1962)

919

(5)

The Watchers

920

(1)

The House of Falling Leaves

921

(1)

Sic Vita

922

(1)

Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves

923

(1)

Quiet Has a Hidden Sound

923

(1)

FENTON JOHNSON (1888-1958)

924

(5)

Singing Hallelujia

925

(1)

Song of the Whirlwind

926

(1)

My God in Heaven Said to Me

926

(1)

The Lonely Mother

927

(1)

Tired

928

(1)

The Scarlet Woman

928

(1)

HARLEM RENAISSANCE: 1919-1940

929

(390)

ARTHUR A. SCHOMBURG (1874-1938)

937

(6)

The Negro Digs Up His Past

937

(6)

ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE (1880-1958)

943

(3)

A Winter Twilight

944

(1)

The Black Finger

944

(1)

For the Candle Light

944

(1)

When the Green Lies Over the Earth

944

(1)

Tenebris

945

(1)

ANNE SPENCER (1882-1975)

946

(5)

Before the Feast of Shushan

947

(1)

Dunbar

948

(1)

At the Carnival

948

(1)

Lady, Lady

949

(1)

Letter to My Sister

949

(1)

The Wife-Woman

950

(1)

JESSIE REDMON FAUSET (c. 1884-1961)

951

(9)

Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral

952

(8)

From Home

952

(1)

Chapter I [Black Philadelphia]

952

(5)

Chapter II [Sundays]

957

(3)

ALAIN LOCKE (1886-1954)

960

(10)

The New Negro

961

(9)

GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (1886-1966)

970

(2)

The Heart of a Woman

971

(1)

Youth

971

(1)

My Little Dreams

971

(1)

Lost Illusions

972

(1)

I Want to Die While You Love Me

972

(1)

MARCUS GARVEY (1887-1940)

972

(9)

Africa for the Africans

974

(3)

The Future as I See It

977

(4)

CLAUDE McKAY (1889-1948)

981

(15)

Harlem Shadows

984

(1)

If We Must Die

984

(1)

To the White Fiends

984

(1)

Africa

985

(1)

America

985

(1)

My Mother

986

(1)

Enslaved

986

(1)

The White House

986

(1)

Outcast

987

(1)

St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd

987

(1)

Home to Harlem

988

(5)

Chapter XVII. He Also Loved

988

(5)

Harlem Runs Wild

993

(3)

ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)

996

(69)

Sweat

999

(9)

How It Feels to Be Colored Me

1008

(3)

The Gilded Six-Bits

1011

(8)

Characteristics of Negro Expression

1019

(13)

Mules and Men

1032

(9)

[Negro Folklore]

1032

(9)

Their Eyes Were Watching God

1041

(9)

Chapter 1 [The Return]

1041

(4)

Chapter 2 [Pear Tree]

1045

(5)

Dust Tracks on a Road

1050

(15)

Chapter X. Research

1050

(15)

NELLA LARSEN (1893-1964)

1065

(22)

Quicksand

1066

(21)

Chapter 12 [To Denmark]

1066

(3)

Chapter 13 [New Life]

1069

(4)

Chapter 14 [Talk of Marriage]

1073

(5)

Chapter 15 [Proposal]

1078

(6)

Chapter 16 [Good-Bye]

1084

(3)

JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)

1087

(83)

Cane

1089

(81)

GEORGE SAMUEL SCHUYLER (1895-1977)

1170

(4)

The Negro-Art Hokum

1171

(3)

RUDOLPH FISHER (1897-1934)

1174

(21)

The City of Refuge

1175

(12)

The Caucasian Storms Harlem

1187

(8)

ERIC WALROND (1898-1966)

1195

(10)

The Wharf Rats

1196

(9)

MARITA BONNER (1899-1971)

1205

(5)

On Being Young--a Woman--and Colored

1206

(4)

STERLING A. BROWN (1901-1989)

1210

(16)

Odyssey of Big Boy

1211

(1)

Long Gone

1212

(1)

Southern Road

1213

(2)

Strong Men

1215

(1)

Memphis Blues

1216

(2)

Slim Greer

1218

(2)

Tin Roof Blues

1220

(1)

Ma Rainey

1220

(2)

Cabaret

1222

(2)

Sporting Beasley

1224

(1)

Sam Smiley

1225

(1)

GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT (1902-1981)

1226

(3)

Heritage

1227

(1)

To a Dark Girl

1228

(1)

Sonnet--2

1228

(1)

Hatred

1229

(1)

WALLACE THURMAN (1902-1934)

1229

(10)

Infants of the Spring

1231

(8)

Chapter XXI [Harlem Salon]

1231

(8)

ARNA BONTEMPS (1902-1973)

1239

(12)

Golgotha Is a Mountain

1240

(2)

A Black Man Talks of Reaping

1242

(1)

Nocturne at Bethesda

1242

(2)

Southern Mansion

1244

(1)

Miracles

1244

(1)

A Summer Tragedy

1244

(7)

LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)

1251

(52)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

1254

(1)

Mother to Son

1254

(1)

Danse Africaine

1255

(1)

Jazzonia

1255

(1)

When Sue Wears Red

1256

(1)

Dream Variations

1256

(1)

The Weary Blues

1257

(1)

I Too

1258

(1)

A House in Taos

1258

(1)

Homesick Blues

1259

(1)

Po' Boy Blues

1260

(1)

Gypsy Man

1260

(1)

Lament over Love

1261

(1)

Red Silk Stockings

1262

(1)

Bad Man

1262

(1)

Song for a Dark Girl

1262

(1)

Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover

1263

(1)

Hard Daddy

1263

(1)

Sylvester's Dying Bed

1264

(1)

Ballad of the Landlord

1265

(1)

Juke Box Love Song

1266

(1)

Dream Boogie

1266

(1)

Harlem

1267

(1)

Motto

1267

(1)

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

1267

(4)

The Blues I'm Playing

1271

(11)

The Big Sea

1282

(15)

When the Negro Was in Vogue

1282

(7)

Harlem Literati

1289

(4)

Downtown

1293

(4)

The Best of Simple

1297

(6)

Feet Live Their Own Life

1297

(2)

A Toast to Harlem

1299

(2)

Jealousy

1301

(2)

COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)

1303

(12)

Yet Do I Marvel

1305

(1)

Tableau

1305

(1)

Incident

1306

(1)

Saturday's Child

1306

(1)

The Shroud of Color

1307

(4)

Heritage

1311

(3)

To John Keats, Poet at Spring Time

1314

(1)

From the Dark Tower

1315

(1)

HELENE JOHNSON (1907-1995)

1315

(4)

Poem

1316

(1)

Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

1317

(1)

Remember Not

1317

(1)

Invocation

1317

(2)

REALISM, NATURALISM, MODERNISM: 1940-1960

1319

(472)

MELVIN B. TOLSON (1900?-1966)

1328

(30)

An Ex-Judge at the Bar

1330

(1)

Dark Symphony

1331

(3)

A Legend of Versailles

1334

(1)

Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

1335

(22)

The Birth of John Henry

1357

(1)

Satchmo

1358

(1)

DOROTHY WEST (b. 1907)

1358

(18)

The Living Is Easy

1359

(17)

Part One

1359

(1)

Chapter 1. [Cleo]

1359

(4)

Chapter 2. [Cleo's High Jinks]

1363

(7)

Chapter 3. [Cleo Goes North]

1370

(6)

RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)

1376

(91)

Blueprint for Negro Writing

1380

(8)

The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an Autobiographical Sketch

1388

(9)

Long Black Song

1397

(17)

The Man Who Lived Underground

1414

(36)

Black Boy

1450

(17)

Chapter XIII. [Booklist]

1450

(7)

Chapter XVI. [Chicago]

1457

(10)

CHESTER B. HIMES (1909-1984)

1467

(9)

Salute to the Passing

1468

(8)

ANN PETRY (1911-1997)

1476

(21)

Like a Winding Sheet

1478

(6)

The Street

1484

(13)

Chapter I. [The Apartment]

1484

(13)

ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1982)

1497

(18)

The Diver

1499

(1)

Homage to the Empress of the Blues

1500

(1)

Middle Passage

1501

(4)

O Daedalus, Fly Away Home

1505

(1)

Runagate Runagate

1506

(2)

Frederick Douglass

1508

(1)

A Ballad of Remembrance

1509

(1)

Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday

1510

(1)

Soledad

1511

(1)

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

1512

(2)

A Letter from Phillis Wheatley

1514

(1)

RALPH ELLISON (1914-1994)

1515

(56)

Invisible Man

1518

(23)

Prologue

1518

(7)

Chapter 1. [Battle Royal]

1525

(10)

Epilogue

1535

(6)

Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke

1541

(8)

The World and the Jug

1549

(22)

MARGARET WALKER (b. 1915)

1571

(6)

For My People

1572

(2)

Poppa Chicken

1574

(1)

For Malcolm X

1575

(1)

Prophets for a New Day

1575

(2)

GWENDOLYN BROOKS (b. 1917)

1577

(73)

kitchenette building

1579

(1)

the mother

1579

(1)

a song in the front yard

1580

(1)

Sadie and Maud

1580

(1)

the vacant lot

1581

(1)

the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon

1581

(1)

The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith

1582

(3)

Maxie Allen

1585

(1)

The Rites for Cousin Vit

1586

(1)

The Children of the Poor

1586

(3)

The Lovers of the Poor

1589

(2)

We Real Cool

1591

(1)

The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock

1591

(2)

A Lovely Love

1593

(1)

Malcolm X

1593

(1)

Two Dedications

1594

(2)

Riot

1596

(1)

The Third Sermon on the Warpland

1597

(2)

Young Heroes

1599

(2)

when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story

1601

(1)

Maud Martha

1602

(48)

JAMES BALDWIN (1924-1987)

1650

(67)

Everybody's Protest Novel

1654

(5)

Many Thousands Gone

1659

(11)

Stranger in the Village

1670

(9)

Notes of a Native Son

1679

(15)

Sonny's Blues

1694

(23)

BOB KAUFMAN (1925-1986)

1717

(8)

Walking Parker Home

1718

(1)

Grandfather Was Queer, Too

1718

(1)

Jail Poems

1719

(4)

Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness

1723

(1)

War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen to It at Your Own Risk

1724

(1)

LORRAINE HANSBERRY (1930-1965)

1725

(66)

A Raisin in the Sun

1728

(63)

THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: 1960-1970

1791

(220)

MARI EVANS

1806

(3)

Status Symbol

1807

(1)

I Am a Black Woman

1808

(1)

HOYT FULLER (1923-1981)

1809

(7)

Towards a Black Aesthetic

1810

(6)

MALCOLM X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) (1925-1965)

1816

(17)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

1817

(16)

Chapter 11. Saved

1817

(16)

JOHN ALFRED WILLIAMS (b. 1925)

1833

(20)

The Man Who Cried I Am

1834

(19)

1. [In an Outdoor Cafe]

1834

(6)

2. [Memories, Margrit, and Morphine]

1840

(9)

3. [Picture of the Writer]

1849

(4)

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (1929-1968)

1853

(13)

Letter from Birmingham Jail

1854

(12)

ETHERIDGE KNIGHT (1931-1985)

1866

(3)

The Idea of Ancestry

1867

(1)

Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

1868

(1)

For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide

1869

(1)

ADDISON GAYLE JR. (1932-1991)

1869

(8)

The Black Aesthetic

1870

(7)

Introduction

1870

(7)

AMIRI BARAKA (b. 1934)

1877

(25)

Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

1879

(1)

In Memory of Radio

1880

(1)

A Poem for Black Hearts

1881

(1)

I don't love you

1881

(1)

Three Movements and a Coda

1882

(1)

SOS

1883

(1)

Black Art

1883

(1)

The Invention of Comics

1884

(1)

Dutchman

1885

(14)

The Revolutionary Theatre

1899

(3)

SONIA SANCHEZ (b. 1934)

1902

(5)

homecoming

1903

(1)

poem at thirty

1903

(1)

for our lady

1904

(1)

Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict

1905

(1)

A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women

1905

(2)

Part Three

1905

(1)

Present

1905

(2)

ED BULLINS (b. 1935)

1907

(39)

Goin'a Buffalo: A Tragifantasy

1908

(38)

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (b. 1935)

1946

(9)

Soul on Ice

1947

(8)

The Primeval Mitosis

1947

(8)

A. B. SPELLMAN (b. 1935)

1955

(1)

Did John's Music Kill Him?

1955

(1)

JAYNE CORTEZ (b. 1936)

1956

(3)

How Long Has Trane Been Gone

1957

(2)

LARRY NEAL (1937-1981)

1959

(13)

The Black Arts Movement

1960

(12)

MAULANA KARENGA (b. 1941)

1972

(5)

Black Art: Mute Matter Given Force and Function

1973

(4)

HAKI R. MADHUBUTI (b. 1942)

1977

(5)

Back Again, Home

1978

(1)

Introduction [to Think Black]

1978

(1)

The Long Reality

1979

(1)

Malcolm Spoke / who listened?

1980

(1)

a poem to complement other poems

1981

(1)

NIKKI GIOVANNI (b. 1943)

1982

(3)

For Saundra

1983

(1)

Beautiful Black Men

1984

(1)

Nikki-Rosa

1984

(1)

JAMES ALAN McPHERSON (b. 1943)

1985

(17)

A Solo Song: For Doc

1986

(16)

QUINCY TROUPE (b. 1943)

2002

(5)

In Texas Grass

2003

(1)

Conversation Overheard

2004

(2)

Impressions / of Chicago; For Howlin' Wolf

2006

(1)

CAROLYN M. RODGERS (b. 1945)

2007

(4)

Jesus Was Crucified

2007

(2)

It Is Deep

2009

(1)

For Sistuhs Wearin' Straight Hair

2010

(1)

LITERATURE SINCE 1970

2011

(601)

ALBERT MURRAY (b. 1916)

2021

(16)

Train Whistle Guitar

2023

(14)

[History Lessons]

2023

(14)

MAYA ANGELOU (b. 1928)

2037

(13)

Still I Rise

2039

(1)

My Arkansas

2040

(1)

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

2040

(10)

Chapter 15. [Mrs. Flowers]

2040

(6)

Chapter 16. ["Mam"]

2046

(4)

PAULE MARSHALL (b. 1929)

2050

(29)

Reena

2052

(13)

To Da-Duh, in Memoriam

2065

(7)

The Making of a Writer: From the Poets in the Kitchen

2072

(7)

ADRIENNE KENNEDY (b. 1931)

2079

(15)

A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White

2081

(13)

TONI MORRISON (b. 1931)

2094

(86)

Sula

2098

(82)

ERNEST J. GAINES (b. 1933)

2180

(23)

The Sky Is Gray

2182

(21)

AUDRE LORDE (1934-1992)

2203

(9)

Father Son and Holy Ghost

2204

(1)

The Winds of Orisha

2205

(2)

Coal

2207

(1)

Now That I Am Forever with Child

2207

(1)

A Litany for Survival

2208

(1)

The Evening News

2209

(1)

Poetry Is Not a Luxury

2210

(2)

COLLEEN McELROY (b. 1935)

2212

(7)

Pike Street Bus

2213

(1)

The Griots Who Know Brer Fox

2214

(2)

Tapestries

2216

(2)

Caledonia

2218

(1)

LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)

2219

(8)

[the bodies broken on]

2220

(1)

the lost baby poem

2221

(1)

prayer

2222

(1)

malcolm

2222

(1)

[Kali]

2222

(1)

[if mama / could see]

2223

(1)

homage to my hips

2223

(1)

[what spells raccoon to me]

2224

(1)

l. at jonestown

2224

(1)

[a woman who loves]

2224

(1)

wishes for sons

2225

(1)

move

2226

(1)

JUNE JORDAN (b. 1936)

2227

(14)

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.

2229

(1)

I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies

2230

(1)

Poem about My Rights

2231

(3)

Poem for Guatemala

2234

(1)

The Female and the Silence of a Man

2235

(1)

Intifada

2236

(2)

A New Politics of Sexuality

2238

(3)

CLARENCE MAJOR (b. 1936)

2241

(9)

Swallow the Lake

2243

(1)

Round Midnight

2244

(2)

On Watching a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly

2246

(1)

Chicago Heat

2247

(3)

LEON FORREST (b. 1937)

2250

(25)

There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden

2252

(23)

The Epistle of Sweetie Reed

2252

(23)

MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)

2275

(10)

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

2277

(1)

Deathwatch

2278

(1)

Here Where Coltrane Is

2279

(1)

Br'er Sterling and the Rocker

2280

(1)

Grandfather

2280

(2)

"Goin' to the Territory"

2282

(1)

In Hayden's Collage

2283

(1)

The Ghost of Soul-Making

2284

(1)

ISHMAEL REED (b. 1938)

2285

(20)

I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra

2286

(2)

Railroad Bill, a Conjure Man

2288

(4)

Dualism: In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

2292

(1)

Chattanooga

2293

(3)

Oakland Blues

2296

(1)

Neo-HooDoo Manifesto

2297

(4)

Mumbo Jumbo

2301

(4)

Chapters 1-2

2301

(4)

TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939-1995)

2305

(8)

Raymond's Run

2307

(6)

AL YOUNG (b. 1939)

2313

(12)

A Dance for Ma Rainey

2314

(1)

Conjugal Visits

2315

(2)

The Seduction of Light

2317

(8)

2A. [Ben Franklin]

2317

(5)

3. [Secondhand Business]

2322

(3)

JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN (b. 1941)

2325

(17)

Brothers and Keepers

2328

(7)

[Robby's Version]

2328

(7)

Damballah

2335

(7)

SAMUEL R. DELANY (b. 1942)

2342

(19)

Atlantis: Model 1924 [d]

2343

(18)

SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS (b. 1944)

2361

(14)

The Peacock Poems: I

2363

(1)

I Want Aretha to Set This to Music

2363

(2)

Tell Martha Not to Moan

2365

(10)

ALICE WALKER (b. 1944)

2375

(34)

Women

2377

(1)

Outcast

2378

(1)

On Stripping Bark from Myself

2379

(1)

"Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning"

2380

(1)

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

2380

(7)

Everyday Use

2387

(7)

Advancing Luna--and Ida B. Wells

2394

(11)

The Color Purple

2405

(4)

[God Love All Them Feelings]

2406

(3)

AUGUST WILSON (b. 1945)

2409

(53)

Fences

2411

(51)

MICHELLE CLIFF (b. 1946)

2462

(10)

Within the Veil

2463

(3)

Columba

2466

(6)

WANDA COLEMAN (b. 1946)

2472

(7)

Emmett Till

2473

(3)

Today I Am a Homicide in the North of the City

2476

(1)

be quiet. go away

2477

(1)

At the Record Hop

2477

(1)

American Sonnet (10)

2478

(1)

Bedtime Story

2478

(1)

Mastectomy

2479

(1)

OCTAVIA BUTLER (b. 1947)

2479

(16)

Bloodchild

2480

(15)

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947)

2495

(4)

February in Sydney

2495

(1)

Facing It

2496

(1)

Sunday Afternoons

2496

(1)

Banking Potatoes

2497

(1)

Birds on a Powerline

2498

(1)

NATHANIEL MACKEY (b. 1947)

2499

(8)

Falso Brilhante

2500

(1)

Song of the Andoumboulou: 8

2501

(1)

Djbot Baghostus's Run 26.IX.81

2502

(5)

CHARLES JOHNSON (b. 1948)

2507

(11)

The Education of Mingo

2509

(9)

NTOZAKE SHANGE (b. 1948)

2518

(6)

From for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

2519

(2)

Nappy Edges

2521

(2)

Bocas: A Daughter's Geography

2523

(1)

JAMAICA KINCAID (b. 1949)

2524

(11)

Annie John

2526

(9)

Chapter Two. The Circling Hand

2526

(9)

DAVID BRADLEY (b. 1950)

2535

(7)

The Chaneysville Incident

2536

(6)

[Old Jack]

2536

(6)

GLORIA NAYLOR (b. 1950)

2542

(29)

The Women of Brewster Place

2544

(27)

The Two

2544

(27)

TERRY MCMILLAN (b. 1951)

2571

(11)

Quilting on the Rebound

2572

(10)

RITA DOVE (b. 1952)

2582

(12)

David Walker (1785-1830)

2584

(1)

Parsley

2585

(2)

Receiving the Stigmata

2587

(1)

THOMAS AND BEULAH

2587

(1)

The Event

2587

(1)

Motherhood

2588

(1)

Daystar

2589

(1)

The Oriental Ballerina

2589

(2)

Pastoral

2591

(1)

MOTHER LOVE

2591

(1)

Persephone Abducted

2591

(1)

Statistic: The Witness

2592

(1)

Mother Love

2592

(1)

Demeter Mourning

2593

(1)

History

2593

(1)

Demeter's Prayer to Hades

2594

(1)

WALTER MOSLEY (b. 1952)

2594

(14)

Devil in a Blue Dress

2596

(12)

Chapter 1. [DeWitt Albright]

2596

(2)

Chapter 2. [Joppy]

2598

(3)

Chapter 3. [Daphne Monet]

2601

(7)

ESSEX HEMPHILL (1957-1995)

2608

(4)

Conditions

2609

(3)

XXI

2609

(1)

XXII

2610

(1)

XXIV

2610

(2)

TIMELINE: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN CONTEXT

2612

(13)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

2625

(24)

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

2649

(8)

INDEX

2657

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