Relatives and ancestors -- Trunk and branch : Charles Waddell Chesnutt, 1858-1932 -- Themes and cadences : James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 -- Song of the South : Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 -- A clear case : Richard Wright, 1908-1960 -- The shadow of the past : Ralph Ellison, 1914- -- Products of the Southern condition.