The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

by Gates, Henry Louis; McKay, Nellie Y.

• ISBN13: 9780393959086
• ISBN10: 0393959082
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• Copyright: 1997-02-01
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Table of Contents

PREFACE: TALKING BOOKS	xxvii	(16)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xliii
THE VERNACULAR TRADITION	1	(126)
[Entries marked * are included on the Audio Companion]
SPIRITUALS	5	(11)
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?	7	(1)
City Called Heaven	8	(1)
God's A-Gonna Trouble the Water	8	(1)
Walk Together Children	9	(1)
I Know Moon-Rise	9	(1)
I'm A-Rollin'	10	(1)
I Been Rebuked and I Been Scorned	10	(1)
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?*	10	(1)
Soon I Will Be Done *	11	(1)
No More Auction Block	12	(1)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot	13	(1)
Steal Away to Jesus *	13	(1)
Go Down, Moses *	14	(1)
Been in the Storm So Long *	14	(1)
Oh, Freedom!	15	(1)
GOSPEL	16	(6)
This Little Light of Mine	17	(1)
Down by the Riverside	18	(2)
Freedom in the Air	20	(1)
Take My Hand, Precious Lord *	20	(1)
Peace Be Still	21	(1)
Stand by Me	21	(1)
THE BLUES	22	(15)
Yellow Dog Blues	23	(1)
St. Louis Blues *	24	(1)
Beale Street Blues	25	(1)
Down-Hearted Blues	26	(1)
See, See Rider *	27	(1)
Prove It on Me Blues	27	(1)
Gulf Coast Blues	28	(1)
Trouble in Mind	29	(1)
Backwater Blues *	29	(1)
In the House Blues	30	(1)
How Long Blues	31	(1)
Hellhound on My Trail	31	(1)
It's a Low Down Dirty Shame	32	(1)
Good Morning, Blues *	33	(1)
Sent for You Yesterday	34	(1)
Going to Chicago Blues	34	(1)
Fine and Mellow	34	(1)
Hoochie Coochie	35	(1)
Sunnyland *	36	(1)
SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS, BALLADS, AND WORK SONGS	37	(18)
SECULAR RHYMES AND SONGS	38	(3)
[We raise de wheat]	38	(1)
Me and My Captain	38	(1)
Promises of Freedom	39	(1)
Jack and Dinah Want Freedom	39	(1)
Run, Nigger, Run	40	(1)
Learn to Count	40	(1)
Another Man Done Gone *	40	(1)
You May Go But This Will Bring You Back *	41	(1)
BALLADS	41	(11)
Poor Lazarus	41	(1)
The Signifying Monkey	42	(2)
Wild Negro Bill	44	(1)
John Henry *	45	(3)
Frankie and Johnny	48	(1)
Railroad Bill	49	(1)
Stackolee	50	(1)
Sinking of the Titanic	51	(1)
Shine and the Titanic	51	(1)
WORK SONGS	52	(3)
Pick a Bale of Cotton	52	(1)
Go Down, Old Hannah	53	(1)
Can't You Line It?	54	(1)
JAZZ	55	(5)
Andy Razaf: (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue? *	57	(1)
Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) *	58	(1)
King Pleasure: Parker's Mood *	59	(1)
RAP	60	(9)
Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	61	(1)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five: The Message *	62	(3)
Public Enemy: Don't Believe the Hype	65	(3)
Queen Latifah: The Evil That Men Do	68	(1)
SERMONS	69	(33)
God	71	(1)
C.L. Franklin: The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest	71	(7)
Zora Neale Hurston: [Faith hasn't got no eyes]	78	(2)
Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream *	80	(3)
Martin Luther King: I've Been to the Mountaintop	83	(7)
Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet *	90	(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