| Description |
xviii, 604 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 564-600. |
| Contents |
Life and times of Frederick Douglass: "A child's reasoning" -- Letter to his master, Thomas Auld -- Charles Waddell Chwesnutt -- "The goophered grapevine" -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- "The party" -- "A song" -- "We wear the mask" -- W. E. B. Dubois -- "The song of the smoke" -- "Of the sons of master and man" -- James Weldon Johnson -- "O black and unknown bards" -- "Sence you went away" -- Alain Locke -- "The new negro" -- Claude Mckay -- "America" -- "The White House" -- "Harlem dancer" -- "In bondage" -- "Harlem shadows" -- "The white city" -- "North and south" -- "Baptism" -- "If we must die" -- Jean Toomer -- "Esther" -- "Avey" -- Rudolph Fisher -- "Miss Cynthie" -- Eric Walrond -- "The yellow one" -- Sterling A. Brown -- "Negro character as seen by White Authors" -- Countee Cullen -- "Yet do I marvel" -- "Heritage" -- "For a poet" -- "For a pessimist" -- "For John Keats" -- "For Paul Laurence Dunbar" -- "She of the dancing feet sings" -- "Counter mood" -- "Song in spite of myself" -- "Nothing endures" -- "Magnets" -- "Sonnet: What I am saying now was said before..." -- "Sonnet: These are no wind-blown rumors, soft say-sos..." -- "To France" -- "Scottsboro" -- Langston Hughes -- "The negro speaks of rivers" -- "Mulatto" -- "The negro mother" -- "Evenin' air blues" -- "Dream boogie" -- "On the road" -- "Dear Dr. Butts" -- "Jazz, jive and jam" -- Richard Wright -- "The man who killed a shadow" -- "The ethics of living Jim Crow" -- Ralph Ellison -- "Flying home" -- "King of the bingo game" -- "Hidden name and complex fate" -- James Baldwin -- "Notes of a native son" -- "Sonny's blues" -- Albert Murray -- "Train whistle guitar" -- John A. Williams -- "Son in the afternoon" -- Paule Marshall -- "Brazil" -- Ernest J. Gaines -- "The sky is gray" -- William Melvin Kelley -- "Cry for me" -- William B. Tolson -- From Harlem Gallery -- Arna Bontemps -- "Southern mansion" -- "Miracles" -- "Reconnaissance" -- Robert E. Hayden -- "The driver" -- "Frederick Douglas" -- "Runagate runagate" -- Dudley Randall -- "The southern road" -- "Brooker T. and W. E. B." -- "Perspectives" -- "To the mercy killers" -- Margaret A. Walker -- "For my people" -- "Molly means" -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- From "The womanhood" in Annie Allan -- Section II of "The womanhood" in Annie Allan -- "The egg boiler" -- James A. Emanuel -- "A clown at ten" -- Emmett till" -- "After the record is broken" -- "A pause for a fine phrase" -- Mari Evans -- "The alarm clock" -- "...And the old women gathered" -- "When in Rome" -- "Black jam for Dr. Negro" -- Leroi Jones -- "Preface to a twenty volume suicide note" -- "A poem for black hearts" -- "Jitterbugs" -- Arthur P. Davis -- "Trends in negro American literature" -- Philip Butcher -- "Emerson and the south" -- Nathan A. Scott, Jr. -- "Society and the self in recent american literature" -- Julian Mayfield -- "Into the mainstream and oblivion" |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
| Added Author |
Gross, Theodore L.
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