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Call and response: the Riverside anthology of the African American literary tradition
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Houghton Mifflin Company
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[1998]
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English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
I. "Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land" African American history and culture, 1619-1808
The description of the conditions of slavery and oppression
Racial and Religion Oppression
Call for Deliverance: The oral tradution
Origins: African survivals in slave folk culture
Proverbs
African prototypes
Slave proverbs
Slave proverbs and their African paralleles
The folk cry
The shout
'Ligion so sweet
Work songs and other secular music
African prototype
An African sponner's song
Early slave work songs
An old boat song
Antiphonal patterns of work songs
Spirituals
African prototypes of lengthy epic narratives
from "Sunjata"
Spirituals as lengthy epic narratives
"Go down, Moses"
Praise poems
African prototypes
Praise poems of epic heroes
Griot's praise song from Banna Kanute's Sunjata
Mandingo people's song from Mamadou Kouyate's Sundiata
Hunter's praise song from Seydou Camara's Kambili
Praise poems of Allah
Griot's Praise poem of Allah from Seydou Camara's Kambili
Marabout's prophecy from Banna Kanute's Sunjata
Spirituals as paraise poems
"God is a God" from "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel"
"Joshua fit de Battle of Jericho"
Sermons and prayers
African prototypes
Sermons in epic narratives
Griot's sermon from Seydou Canara's Kambili
Short prayers in epic narratives
Sologan's prayer from Mamadou Kauyate's Sundiata
Short hymns in epic narratives
"Niama" from Mamadou Kouyate's Sundiata
Spirituals as sermons and prayers
From "Humble Yo'self de bell done ring"
"Keep me from sinking down"
Lyrical poetry
African prototypes
Griot's chant from Shekarisi Rurede's The Mwindo epic
Warrior Kanji's Lament from Seydou Camara's Kambili
Spirituals as lyrical poetry
"Were you there when they cruicified my Lord?"
"Motherless child"
Improvisations: Theme and variation, call and response, performance styles, rhythms and melodic structures
African antiphonal patterns
An old Bornu song
Antiphonal patterns in the spirituals
"Lay dis body down"
African melodic structures
Duple and triple rhythms
Melodic structures in the spirituals
An Example of Duple rhythms and the pentatonic scale
"Jesus on de water-side," from Slave songs of the United States
An Example of a syncopated melody with hand clapping and foot tapping
"Nobody knows de trouble I've had" from Slave Songs of the United States
A Spiritual composed by Ricahard Allen
Folktales
African folktales
Animal trickster tales
"The elephant and the tortoise"
"Why the hare runs away"
Slave folktales
Animal trickster tales
"Rabbit teaches bear a song"
"T'appin" (Terrapin)
"Tar baby"
Tales of flying Africans
Two tales
Conjure tales
Two tales from Eatonville, Florida
Voodoo, Ghost, and Haunt tales
"Voodoo and whtches"
"The Headless hant
Response: Black literary declarations of independence
Poetry, slave narratives, letters, essays, and oratory
Voices of slave poets
Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?)
"An evening thought: salvation by Christ with Penetical [sic] cries"
"An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly" [sic]
"A winter piece"
Lucy Terry (1730-1821)
"Bars Fight"
Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784)
"On being brought from Africa to America"
"To the University of Cambridge, in New-England"
"Philis's [sic] reply to the answer in our last by the gentleman in the Navy"
"To the right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Sectretary of State for North-America, [ect.]"
"To S.M. a young African painter, on seeing his works"
"On the death of Rev. Mr. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770"
"On the death of General Wooster"
To Arbour Tanner in New Port
To Samson Occom
Voices of social protest in prose
The confesstional narrative
The life and confession of Johnson Green, Who is to be executed this day, August 17th, 1786, for the atrocious crime of burglary
The slave narrative
Britton Hammon (?-?)
From Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing if the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing [sic]
Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A negro man, servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New England; Who returned to Boston, after having been absent almost thirteen years
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
From The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 10
Chapter 12
Letters and essays
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Prince Hall (1735c.-1807)
A charge, delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797
Lemuel B. Haynes (1753-1818)
"Liberty further extended"
"The battle of Lexington"
Voices of orators
The sermon
Absalom Jones (1746-1818)
A Thanksgiving sermon preached January 1, 1808
John Marrant (1755-1790?)
A sermon preached on the 24th day of June 1789
Richard Allen (1760-1831)
"An address to those who keep slaves and approve the practice."
II. "Tell ole pharaoh, let my people go" African American history and culture, 1808-1865
The explanations of the desire for freedom
Repression and racial response
Southern folk call for resistance
Folk poetry: Slave songs of rebellion, the underground railroad, and emancipation
Spirituals
"You got a right"
"There's a better day a coming"
"Oh Mary, don't your weep"
" Steel away"
"Swing low, sweet chariot"
"Hail Mary"
"Many thousand gone" "Wade in nuh watuh childun"
"Follow the drinking gou'd"
Sweet Canaan
"There's a meeting here tonight"
"Master's in the field"
"Michael row the boat ashore"
"Before I'd be a slave" ("Oh, freedom")
Secular songs
"JUba"
"Raise a ruckus tonight"
"We raise de wheat"
"One time upon dis ribber"
"Shuck dat corn before you eat"
"Roun' de corn, Sally"
Folktales
John and old master tales
"Massa and the bear"
"John steals a pig and a sheep"
Northern literary response: Rights for blacks, rights for women
Mafor abolitionist voices
David Walker (1785-1830)
From David Waler's appeal, in four articles
Preamble
Article I. Our wretchedness in consequence of slavery
Sojourner Truthe (1979-99?-1883)
Speech at Akron convention, Arkon, Ohio, May 28029, 1851;
From Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage of Sojourner
Truth
Speech at New York City Convention
Address to the First annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association, New York City, May 9, 1867
Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882)
An address to the slaves of the United States of America
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American slave written by himself
"The rights of women"
"What to the slave is the fourth of July?" an address delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852
Alexander Crummell (1819-1898)
"Hope for Africa"
"The black woman of the South: Her neglects and her needs"
Frances Watkins Harper (1824-1911)
"The slave auction" "The slave mother"
"Bury me in a free land"
"Songs for the people"
"A double standard"
"Learning to read" From Sketches of Southern life.
"Aunt Chloe's politics"
"Libery for slaves"
"The two offers"
"Women's political future"
From Iola LeRoy
Northern Experience
Diverging paths
Abilitionist orator-poets
George Moses Horton (1797-1883)
"The slave's complaint"
"On liberty and slavery"
"On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the poet's freedom"
James Whitfield (1823-1871)
"America" From America and other poems
"Prayer of the oppressed"
James Madison Bell (1826-1902)
"The day and the war"
"Emancipation in the District of Columbia, April 16, 1862"
Abolitionist orators
Theodore S. Wright (1791-1847)
" The progress of the antislavery cause"
Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879)
From Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build
Lecture, delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832
An address delivered at the Masonic Hall in Boston on February 27, 1833
Farewell address
Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894)
"The negros in the United States of America"
Voices of social protest in prose
The confessional narrative
Nat Turner (1800-1831)
The confessions of Nat Turner
The fugitive slave narrative
Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897)
From Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself
Preface by the author
Chapter I. Childhood
Chapter II. The new master and mistress
Chapter VI. The jealous mistress
Chapter VII. The lover
Chapter X. A perilous passage in a slave girl's life
Chapter XVII. The Flight
Chapter XXI. The loophole of retreat
Chapter XXIX. Preparations for Escape
Chapter XXX. Northward bound
Essays, pamphlets, letters, and journals
Robert Purvis (1810-1898)
Appeal of fourty thousand citizens threatened with disfranchisement to the people of Pennsylvania
Martin R. Delany (1812-1885) From The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States, politically considered
Chapter II. Comparative condition of the colored people of the United States
Chapter III. American colonization
Chapter IV. Our elevation in the United States
Chapter V. Means of elevation
Chapter XVII. Emigraiton of the colored people of the United States
XVIII. "Republic of Liberia"
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837-1914)
From The Journal of Charlotte Forten
"Interesting letter from Miss Charlotte L. Forten"
Elizabeth Keckley (?-1907)
From Behind the scenes
The women's narrative
Jarena Lee (1783-?)
From Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the Gospel
The novel or neo-slave narrative
William Wells Brown (1815-1884)
From A tale of the Southern States
Chapter II. The negro sale
Chapter X. The quadroon's home
Chapter XI. To-day a mistress, to-morrow a slave
Chapter XXV. The flight
Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828?-1863?) From Our Nig: Or, sketches from the life of a free black
Chapter IV. A friend for Nig
Chapter X. Perplexities-Another death
Chatper XII. The winding up of the matter
III. "No more shall they in bondage toil" African American history and culture, 1865-1915
The description of the manner of escape from slavery and the considerations of whether the new freedom is the ideal freedom
Reconstruction and post-Reconstriction
Call for the ideal freedom: the folk tradition
Folk poetry
Spirituals
"Free at las"
"Singin' wid a sword in ma han'"
My Lord, what a mornin'
"Deep river"
"Go tell it on de mountain"
"When the Saints go marching in"
"Git on board, little chillen"
"Mighty rocky road"
Work, badman, and prison songs
"Casey Jones"
"John Henry"
"Railroad Bill"
"Stogolee"
"John Harty"
"Po Laz'us"
Rural blues
"The Joe Turner blues"
"Gwine down dat lonesome road"
"Baby seals blues"
"St. Louis blues"
Ragtime
"I meet dat coon tonight"
The folk sermon
Rev. John Jasper
"De sun do move"
Anonymous
"Dry bones"
Folktales
Memories of slavery
"Swapping dreams"
"Lia's revelation"
"Big sixteen"
Preacher tales
"The three preachers"
"The wrong man in the coffin"
"The preacher and his farmer brother"
Response: the written tradition
Voices of the folk tradition
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
"The goophered grapevine"
"The wife of his youth"
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
"An ante-bellum sermon"
When Malindy sings"
"A negro love song"
"The party"
"Frederick Douglass"
"Sympathy"
"We wear the mask"
"The poet"
"A spiritual"
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
"Sister Josepha"
Fenton Johnson (1888-1958)
"A negro peddler's song."
"Aunt Jane Allen"
The Banjo player"
"Tired"
"The scarlet woman"
"Oratorical voices of reconstruction, race, and women's rights
Balnche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898)
Speech to the U.S. Senate on Mississippi election's delivered March 3, 1876
Robert Brown Elliott (1842-1884)
From "The civil rights bill"
Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933)
"The burden of the educated colored woman"
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)
"The higher educaiton of women" From A voice from the South
Remarks before the 1893 World's Congress of Representative Women on the status of the black woman in the United States
Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944)
"The intellectual progress of the colored women of the United States since the emancipation proclamation"
Voices of reform
Autobiography
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
From Up from slavery
Chapter I. A slave among slaves
Chapter III. The struggle for an education
Chapter VII. Early days at Tuskegee
Chapter XIV. The Atlanta exposition address
Women's narrative
Julia A.J. Foote (1823-1900)
From A brand plucked from the fire
Chapter I. Birth and parentage
Chapter II. Religious impressions-learning the alphabet
Chapter III. The primes-going to school
Chapter IV. My teacher hung for crime
Chapter XVIII. Heavenly visitations again
Chapter XIX. Public effort-excommunication
Chapter XX. Women in the Gospel
Chapter XXI. The Lord leadeth-labor in Philadelphia
Frances Jackson Coppin (1837-1913)
From Reminiscences of school life
The Novel, or neo-slave narrative
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)
From Contending forces
Preface
Chapter VI. Ma Smith's lodging-house-concluded
Chapter VIII. The sewing-circle
Voices of activism
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)
From
Southern horrors: lynch law in all its phases
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
From The souls of black folk
Chapter I. Of our spiritual strivings
Chapter III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others
Chapter XIV. Of the sorrow songs
"A litany of Atlanta"
"The song of the smoke"
The Niagara movement: address to the country
"The negro in literature and art"
"The immediate program of the American negro."
IV. "Bound no'th blues" African American history and culture, 1915-1945
"Play the blues for me"
Renaissance and reformation
Folk call for political and social change
Folk poetry
Classic blues lyrics
"Harlem blue" W.C. Handy
From "That thing called love" Mamie Smith
From "Tain't nobody's business if I do" Bessie Smith
From
"Sissy blues" Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
From "Wild women don't have the blues" Ida Cox
From "God bless the child" Billie Holliday
From "Fast life blues" Bumble Bee slim
From "Coal woman blues" Black Boy Shine
Rural blues lyrics of the thirties and forties
"Dry spell blues" Eddie "Son" House
From "Hard time blues" Charlie Spand
From "Honey, I'm all out and down" Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
"Hollerin' the blues" (Big Bill Broonzy)
"Crossroad blues" Robert Johnson
Gospel songs
"Take my hand, precious Lord" Thomas A. Dorsey
"When I touch his garment" Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley
"If I can just make it in" Kenneth Morris
Jazz
Development of Jazz techniques in performance
Rhythm, melody, and harmony
Improvisation
"(What did I do to be so) black and blue" Andy Razaf and Thomas "Fats" Waller
Swing or big band jazz
From "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" Duke Ellington
Boogie Woogie
"Pine top's boogie woogie" Clarence "Pine Top" Smith
"Dream Googie" Langston Hughes
Bad man and prison songs
"Garvey"
"Champ Joe Louis" Bill Gaither
"This mornin', this evenin', so soon"
"Slim Greer" Sterling Brown
Folk sermons
From God's trombones James Weldon Johnson
"The creation"
"Go down death-A funeral sermon"
From "Preachin the blues"-A mock sermon Bessie Smith
Folktale Collected by Zora Neale Hurston
Call for political and socail change
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940)
Speech on disarmament conference delivered at Libery Hall, New York, Novermber 6, 1921
Walter White (1893-1955)
"I investigate lynchings."
Call for critical debate
The Alain Locke-W.E.B. Du Bois debate on the theory of black art
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
"Criteria of negro art"
Alain Locke (1886-1954)
"The new negro"
Response: Voices of the harlem renaissance
Poets
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Preface From The book of American negro poetry "O black and unkown bards"
"The white witch"
"Fragment"
Anne Sponcer (1882-1975)
"Before the feast at Shushan"
"White things"
"Lady, lady" "Letter to my sister"
"[God never planted a garden]"
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
"The tropics in New York"
"If we must die"
"Baptism"
"Tiger"
"America"
"Harlem shadows
"The Harlem Dancer"
"The white house"
St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd"
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
"The negro speaks of rivers"
"Dream variations"
"Sunday morning prophecy" "The weary blues"
"Jazzonia"
"Life is fine"
"Daybreak in Alabama"
"Bound no'th blues"
"Mother to son"
"Madam's past history"
"Ballad of the Landlord"
"Dream boogie"
"Harlem"
"I, too"
"Feet live their own life"
"The negro artist and the racial mountain" From The Nation"
Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981)
"Heritage"
"To a dark girl"
"Nocturne"
"To usward"
" Street lamps in early spring"
"Hatred"
"Fantasy"
"Secret"
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
"Heritage"
"Scottsboro, too, is worth its song"
"Colored blues singer"
"The litany of the dark people"
"Yet do I marvel"
"A song of praise"
"Not Sacco and VAnzetti"
Helene Johnson (1907- )
"My race"
"Sonnet to a negro in Harlem"
"Bottled"
"Trees at night"
"The road"
"Magalu"
"Summer matures"
"Fulfillment"
Fiction writers
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
From Quicksand
From Passing
Chapter One
Chapter two
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
"Spunk"
"Sweat"
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
From Cane
"Katrintha"
"Song of the son"
"Fern"
"Portrait in Georgia"
"Seventh street"
"Box seat"
From "Kabnis"
"Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934)
"Miss Cynthie"
Eric Walrond (1898-1966)
Response: Voices of the Reformation
Poets
Sterling Brown (1901-1989)
"When de Saints go ma'chin' home"
"Southern road"
"Ma Rainey"
"Old Lem"
"Strong men"
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987)
"Jazz band"
"Robert Whitmore"
"Arthur Ridgewood, M.D."
"Giles Johnson, Ph. D."
Fiction writers
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
"Long black song"
Ann Petry (1908- )
"Like a winding sheet"
"Miss Muriel"
Chester Himes (1909-1984)
"Marihuana and a pistol."
V. "Win the war blues" African American history and culture, 1945-1960
"Play the blues for me"
Post-Renaissance and post-Reformation
Folk call for victory at home and abroad
Folk poetry
Urban blues lyrics
"Win the war blues" Sonny Boy Williamson
"Hitler blues" The Florida Kid
"Eisenhower blues" J.B. Lenoir
"Louisiana blues" Muddy Water
"Back to Korea blues" Sunnyland slim
"Future blues"
Willie Brown
Gospels and spirituals
"We shall overcome©"
"Gimme dat ol'-time religion" arranged by J. Rosamond Johnson
"Move on up a little higher" Mahalia Jackson and Theodore Fryre
"I know it was the Lord" Clara Ward
Rhythm and blues lyrics
From "The twist" (Hand Ballard; performed by Chubby Checker
"Good golly Miss Molly" John S. Marascalco and Robert A. Blackwell; performed by Little Richard
Bop and cool jazz
"Parker's Mood" Charlie '"Yardbird" Parker
From "Donna Lee" Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, performed by Miles Davis
"Flatted fifths" Langston Hughes
Bad women folk ballads poems by Margaret Walker
"Molly means"
"Kissie Lee"
Folk sermon
"The prodical son" C.L. Franklin
Call for critical debate
Hugh M. Gloster (1911- )
"Race and the negro writer"
Nick Aaron Ford (1904-1982)
"A Bluepint for negro authors"
Ann Petry (1908- )
"The novel as social criticism"
Response: voices of African American tradition and moderism
Poets
Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966)
"Dark Symphony"
"Lambda" From Harlem gallery
Robert Hayden (1913-1980)
"Homage to the empress of the blues"
"Middle passage"
"Runagate runagate"
"Frederick Douglass" "Elegies for Paradise Valley"
"A letter from Phillis Wheatley"
Dudley Randall (1914- )
"Booker T. and W.E.B."
"Legacy: My south"
"Ancestors"
Owen Dobson (1914-1983)
"Sorrow is the only faithful one"
"Yardbird's skull (for Charlei Parker)"
"Guitar"
Margaret Esse Danner (1915-1988)
"Far from Africa: Four poems"
" The rhetoric of Langston Hughes"
"The slave and the iron lace"
"Passive resistance"
Margaret Walker (1915- )
"For my people"
"Lineage"
"The ballad of the free"
"Prophets for a new day"
" The crystal palace"
"A patchwork quilt"
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917- )
"the mother"
"the children of the poor"
"The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till"
"The Chicago devender sends a man to Little Rock"
"We real cool."
"The wall"
"The Chicago Picasso"
"Medgar Evers"
"Malcom X"
"The serrmon on the warpland"
"To an old black woman, homeless and indistinct"
Maomi Long Madgett (1923- )
"Midway"
"The old women"
"New Day"
"Monday morning blues"
"A litaney for Afro-Americans
Playwrights
Alice Childress (1920-1994)
Wedding band
Lorraine Hansberry
A raisin in the sun
Fiction writers
Dorthy West (1907- )
"The richer, the poorer"
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
"Prologue" From Invisible man
"Juneteenth"
John Oliver Killens (1916-1987)
"The stick up"
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
"Sonny's blues"
"Everybody's protest novel"
Paule Marshall (1929- )
"Barbados"
From Praisesong for the window
VI. "Cross road blues" African American history and culture, 1960 to the present
"No other music'll ease my misery"
Social revolution, new renaissance, and second reconstruction
Folk call for social revolution and political strategy
Folk poetry
Urban blues lyrics
"The thrill is gone"
B.B. King
"I pity the fool" Bobby "Blue" Bland
"Back door man" Howlin' Wolf
"Am I blue?" Ray Charles
"Big boss man" Jimmy Reed
Rhythm and blues lyrics
"Respect" Otis Reddings; as interpreted by Aretha Franklin
From
"Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud" James Brown
From "Keep on pushing" Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions
"What's going on" Marvin Gaye, A. Cleveland, and R. Benson
Spirituals and gospels adapted for the liberation movement
"Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round"
"Keep your eyes on the prize"
"This little light of mine"
"We shall not be moved"
Avant-garde jazz
Rap lyrics
From
"The revolution will not be televised" Gil Scott-Heron
From "Rapper's delight" The Sugar Hill Gang
From "The message" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
From "Paid in full" Eric B. and Rakim
"Don't believe the hype" Public Enemy
"Fight the power" Public Enemy
From "Ladies first" Queen Latifah and Monie Love
"Just a friendly game of baseball" Main Source
From "Freedom of speech" Ice T
A rap From "Philadelphia fire" John Wideman
Toasts
"Signifyin' monkey" version by Oscar Brown, Jr.
Folk sermon
"Ezekiel and the vision of dry bones" version by Carl J. Anderson; collected and transcribed by Gerald Davis
Contemporary folktales collected by Daryl C. Dance
"In the beginning"
"How blacks got to America"
"He remembered"
"Don't call my name"
"The only two I can trust"
"I'm gon' get in the drawer"
"Outsmarting Whitey"
"Call for political and social strategy
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
Speech to African Summit Conference-Cairo, Egypt
Martin Luter King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"I have a dream"
Stokely Carmichael (1941- )
"Black power"
Jesse Jackson (1941- )
Address: Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984
Angela Davis (1944- )
From "Reflections on the black woman's role in the community of slaves"
Call for critical debate
Larry Neal (1937-1981)
"The balck arts movement"
Joyce Ann Joyce (1949- )
"The black canon: Reconstructing black American literary criticism"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (1950- )
" 'What's love got to do it?': Critical theory, intgrity, and the black idiom"
Response: Voices of the new black renaissance
Voices of the black arts movement
The new black poets
Etheridge Knight (1931-1991)
"The idea of ancestry"
"The violent space (or when your sister sleeps around form money)"
"Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane"
"He sees through stone"
"A poem for myself (or blues for a Mississippi black boy)"
"Ilu, the talking drum)"
"The bones of my fater"
Sonia Sanchez (1934- )
"the final solution/"
"right on: white america"
"Summer words of a sistuh addict"
"Masks."
"now poem, for us."
"Blues"
"Woman"
"under a soprano sky"
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934- )
"Preface to a twenty volume suicide note"
"Black art"
"SOS"
"Black people: this is our destiny"
"A poem for black hearts"
"Ka 'Ba"
"leory"
"An agony. As now."
"A poem some people will have to understand"
"Three movements and a coda"
"Numbers, letters"
"Dope"
"Wise 1"
Dutchman
Jayne Cortez (1936- )
"In the morning" "Orisha"
"So many feathers"
"Grinding vibrato"
"Rape"
Lucille Clifton (1936- )
"miss rosie"
"for deLawd"
"my mama moved among the days"
"good times"
"the lost baby poem"
"homage to my hips" "what the mirror siad"
"the making of poems"
Haki R. Fadhubuti (Don L. Lee) (1942- )
"Don't cry, scream"
"Two poems" From "Sketches from a black-nappy-headed poet"
"We walk the way of the New World"
"Assassination"
"But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights"
"My brothers"
"White on black crime"
Carolyn Rodgers (1943- )
"Me, in Kulu Se [and] Karma"
"Poem for some black women"
"5 winos"
"U name this one"
"It is deep"
Nikki Giovanni (1943- )
"For Soundra"
"Revolutionary music"
"Nikki-Rosa"
"The women gather"
"Ego tripping (there may be a reason why)"
The new breed
Albert Murray (1916- )
"Train Whistle Guitar"
Mari Evans
"I am a black woman"
"into blackness softly"
"Speak the truth to the people"
"Black jam for dr. negro"
"conceptuality"
Maya Angelou (1928- )
"Still I rise"
"Woman me"
"My Arkansas"
"On diverse deviations"
From I know why the caged bird sings
Kristin Hunter (1931- )
"Forget-me-not"
Tom Dent (1932- )
"For Walter Washington"
"For Lawrence Sly"
"Magnolia Street"
Ernest J. Gaines (1933- )
"Three men"
Henry Dumas (1934-1968)
From Art of bones
Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
"Coal"
"Power"
"Never take fire from a woman."
"Solstice"
"The woman thing"
"Stations"
"Legacy-hers"
June Jordan (1936- )
"All the world moved"
"The new Pietà: For the mothers and children of Detroit"
"In memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr."
"You came with shells"
"Poem about my rights"
William Melvin Kelley (1937- )
"Homesick blues"
"Come back blues"
"Song: I want a witness"
"To James Brown"
"Effendi"
"In Hayden's collage"
"Last affair: Bessie's blues song"
Ishmael Reed (1938- )
"I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra"
"Sermonette"
"Beware: do not read this poem"
"Why I often allude to Osiris"
"Lincoln-Swille" From Flight to Canada
Al Young (1939- )
"A dance for militant dilettantes"
"For Arl in her sixth month"
"There is a sadness"
"The old O.O. blues: introduction"
James Alan McPherson (1943- )
"A solo song: for doc"
Quincy Troupe (1943- )
"Reflections on growing older"
"It all boils down"
"Snake-back solo"
"For Malcolm who walks in the eyes of our children"
Women's voices of self-definition
Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) (1931)
The bluest eye
"Recitatif"
Toni Cade Banbara (1939-1995)
"My man Bovanne"
Alice Walker
"Everyday use"
"In search of our mothers' gardens"
"The empress band trim: Ruby reminisces"
"The peacock poems: 2"
Clenora Hudson-Weems (1945- )
"Africana womanism: An historical, global perspective for women of African descent"
Barbara Smith (1946- )
"Toward a black feminist criticism"
Ntozake Shange (1948- )
"somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff' From for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
Gayl Jones (1949- )
"Ravenna"
Gloria Naylor (1950- )
From Mama Day
bell hooks (1952- )
"Black women: Shaping feninist theory"
Terry McMillan (1951- )
"Franklin" From Disappearing acts
From How Stella got her groove back
Voices of the new wave
Askia Muhammad Touré (1938- )
"Osirian Rhapsody: A myth"
"Dawnsong!"
John Edgar Wideman (1941- )
"newborn thrown in trash and dies"
August Wilson (1945)
Joe Turner's come and gone
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- )
"Camouflaging the Chimera"
"Hanoi Hannah"
"Missing in aciton"
"Facing it"
Charles Johnson (1948- )
"The sorcerer's apprintice."
Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )
"Columbus in chains" From Annie John
Melvin Dixon (1950-1992)
From Vanishing rooms
Anna Deavere Smith (1950- )
From Fires in the mirror
Rita Dove (1952- )
"Roast possum"
"Dusting"
"Taking in wash"
"Under the viaduct, 1932"
"The great palaces of Versailles"
Reginald McKnight (1956- )
"I get on the bus"
From I get on the bus
Charles I. Nero (1956- )
"Toward a black gay aesthetic"
Kamaria Muntu (1959- )
"Of women and spirit"
"Lymphoma"
Randall Kenan (1963- )
"The foundations of the Earth"
Credits and acknowledgments
Index of authors and titles
Subject index
Appendix A
Contents of audio compact disc
1. "Sunyetta" [excerpt] (traditional) 3:49-performed by Abdoulie Samba, vocal and halam; from the Folkways album The Griots (FE4178)
2. "Go down, moses" (traditional) 3:00- perfomed by Bill McAdoo, vocal; from the Folkways
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Contributors
Bell, Bernard W. editor
Harris, Trudier editor
Harris, William J.,1942- editor
Hill, Patricia Alveda Liggins editor
Miller, R. Baxter editor
Harris, Trudier editor
Harris, William J.,1942- editor
Hill, Patricia Alveda Liggins editor
Miller, R. Baxter editor
ISBN
9780395809624
9780395809617
9780395809617
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