Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-260) and index.
Contents
Fenton Johnson : the high cost of militance -- William Stanley Braithwaite and Harriet Monroe : the battle for new poetry -- Margaret Walker and the contest to define America -- Literary criticism and the color line : Melvin B. Tolson's eloquent accomodations -- Roots of the Black Arts movement : New York in the 1960s -- Amiri Baraka : gathering the spirits -- A change is gonna come : Black voices of Louisiana -- Neon griot : the functional role of poetry readings -- At the edge of the twenty-first century.
