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xii, 535 pages ; 17 cm. |
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Americans African Americans |
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Modern library of the world's best books
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Modern library of the world's best books.
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| Contents |
FICTION: Short Story. Fern / Jean Toomer -- Goophered Grapevine / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Yellow One / Eric Walrond -- Blades of Steel / Rudolph Fisher. -- Novel. Fire in the Flint / Walter White -- Dark Princess / W.E.B. Du Bois -- There is Confusion / Jessie Fauset -- Blacker the Berry / Wallace Thurman -- Quicksand / Nella Larsen -- Home to Harlem / Claude McKay -- Walls of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher. |
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DRAMA: Plumes / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Cruiter / Jonathan Matheus. |
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POETRY: Imagination / Phyllis Wheatley -- Rape of Florida / Albert A. Whitman -- Poem addressed to women / Frances E. Harper -- Progress of liberty / James Madison Bell -- Band of Gideon / Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. -- At the closed gate of justice / James D. Corrothers -- Robert Gould Shaw ; Ode to Ethiopia ; When Malindy sings / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- New day / Fenton Johnson -- I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- For the candle light / Angelina Weld Grimke -- To you who ready my book ; To John Keats, poet, at springtime ; Heritage ; To a brown girl ; To a brown boy ; Tableau ; In memory of Colonel Charles Young / Countee Cullen -- Scintilla / William Stanley Braithwaite -- Creation, a negro sermon / James Weldon Johnson -- Georgia dusk ; Song of the son / Jean Toomer -- If we must die ; Harlem dancer ; Spring in New Hampshire ; Lynching / Claude McKay -- La vie c'est la vie / Jessie Fauset -- Dark brother / Lewis Alexander -- Nigger, a chant for children / Frank Horne -- To a dark girl / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- Long gone / Sterling A. Brown -- I, too ; Song for a dark girl ; Mulatto ; Weary blues / Langston Hughes. |
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SPIRITUALS: Swing Low Sweet Chariot -- Go Down Moses -- All Gods Chillun Got Wings -- Deres No Hidin Place Down Dere -- Deep River. |
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LABOR SONGS: Work Song -- Water Boy -- Casey Jones -- John Henry -- Rain or Shine. |
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ESSAYS: Literary. Negro in American Fiction / Benjamin Brawley -- Negro in American Culture / Alain Locke -- Negros Gift to American Music / Clarence Cameron White. Historical. The Freedmans Bureau / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Negro Digs Up His Past / Arthur A. Schomburg -- Sociological. Negro Migration / Charles S. Johnson -- Negro and the New Economic Life / Abram L. Harris -- Organized Labor and the Negro / Charles Wesley -- Disgrace of Democracy / Kelly Miller -- La Bourgeoisie Noire / E. Franklin Frazier -- I Investigate Lynchings / Walter White -- Our Greatest Gift to America / George S. Schuyler -- Fifty Years of Negro Citizenship / Carter G. Woodson -- Dominant Forces in Race Relations / Thomas Dabney. |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Autobiography / Frederick Douglass -- Up from Slavery / Booker T. Washington -- Autobiography of an Ex-coloured Man / James Weldon Johnson. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-535). |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Drama.
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Essays.
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Fiction.
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Musical texts.
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Poetry.
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Short stories.
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Short stories.
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Fiction.
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Drama.
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Poetry.
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Musical texts.
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Essays.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Title |
American Negro literature |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Calverton, V.F. (Victor Francis), 1900-1940. Anthology of American Negro literature. New York, The Modern Library [©1929] (OCoLC)648527825 |
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