Anthologies of African American Writing

Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 2nd ed.

"The Norton Anthology of African American Literature." Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. xlvii+2,776 pp.+ 2 audio discs.

• 1st ed. New York: Norton, 1996. xliv+2,665 pp. + CD disc

• 3rd ed. 2 vols. New York: Norton, 2014. xlvii+1,418+xlv+1,574 pp.

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay / Introduction: Talking Books

The Vernacular Tradition
• [Introduction:] The Vernacular Tradition
Spirituals:
• Anon. / City Called Heaven
• Anon. / I Know Moon-Rise
• Anon. / Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
• Anon. / I'm A-Rollin'
• Anon. / Go Down, Moses
• Anon. / Been in the Storm So Long
• Anon. / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• Anon. / Steal Away to Jesus
• Anon. / Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
• Anon. / God's a-Gonna Trouble the Water
• Anon. / Walk Together Children
• Anon. / Soon I Will Be Done
• Anon. / Come Sunday
Gospel:
• Anon. / This Little Light of Mine
• Anon. / Down by the Riverside
• Anon. / Freedom in the Air
• Anon. / Take My Hand, Precious Lord
• Anon. / Peace Be Still
• Anon. / Stand by Me

Secular Rhymes and Songs, Ballads, Work Songs, and Songs of Social Change
Secular Rhymes and Songs:
• Anon. / [We raise de wheat]
• Anon. / Me and My Captain
• Anon. / Promises of Freedom
• Anon. / No More Auction Block
• Anon. / Jack and Dinah Want Freedom
• Anon. / Run, Nigger, Run
• Anon. / Another Man Done Gone
• Anon. / You May Go But This Will Bring You Back
Ballads:
• Anon. / John Henry
• Anon. / Frankie and Johnny
• Anon. / Railroad Bill
• Anon. / The Signifying Monkey
• Anon. / Stackolee
• Anon. / Sinking of the 'Titanic'
• Anon. / Shine and the 'Titanic'
Work Songs:
• Anon. / Pick a Bale of Cotton
• Anon. / Go Down, Old Hannah
• Anon. / Can't You Line It?
Songs of Social Change
• Anon. / Oh, Freedom
• Anon. / Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round
• Abel Meeropol / Strange Fruit
• Anon. / We Shall Overcome
• Langston Hughes / Backlash Blues
• Nina Simone / Four Women

The Blues
• Anon. / Good Morning, Blues
• Anon. / Hellhound on My Trail
• Anon. / C. C. Rider
• Anon. / Backwater Blues
• Anon. / Down-Hearted Blues
• Anon. / Prove It on Me Blues
• Anon. / Trouble in Mind
• Anon. / How Long Blues
• Anon. / Rock Me Baby
• Anon. / Yellow Dog Blues
• Anon. / St. Louis Blues
• Anon. / Beale Street Blues
• Anon. / The Hesitating Blues
• Anon. / Going to Chicago Blues
• Anon. / Fine and Mellow
• Anon. / Hoochie Coochie
• Anon. / Sunnyland
• Anon. / My Handy Man

Jazz:
• Duke Ellington / It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
• Andy Razaf / (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue
• King Pleasure / Parker's Mood

Rhythm and Blues:
• Sam Cooke / A Change Is Gonna Come
• Smokey Robinson et al. / The Tracks of My Tears
• Marvin Gaye et al. / Dancin' in the Street
• Otis Redding / Respect
• Marvin Gaye / What's Goin' On?
• Stevie Wonder / Living for the City
• Curtis Mayfield / We're a Winner

Hip Hop:
• Gil Scott-Heron / The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
• Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / The Message
• Public Enemy / Don't Believe the Hype
• Queen Latifah / The Evil That Men Do
• Eric B. & Rakim / I Ain't No Joke
• Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.) / Things Done Changed
• Nas / N.Y. State of Mind

Sermons and Prayers:
• Anon. / God
• James Weldon Johnson / Listen Lord, a Prayer
• C. L. Franklin / The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest
• Howard Thurman / O God, I Need Thee
• G. I. Townsel / The Way Out Is to Pray Out
• Martin Luther King, Jr. / I Have a Dream
• Martin Luther King, Jr. / I've Been to the Mountaintop
• Malcolm X / The Ballot or the Bullet
• James Alexander Forbes Jr. / O God of Love, Power and Justice
• Bert Williams / Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity

Folktales:
• Anon. / All God's Chillen Had Wings
• Anon. / Big Talk
• Anon. / Deer Hunting Story
• Anon. / How to Write a Letter
• Anon. / "'Member Youse a Nigger"
• Anon. / "Ah'll Beatcher Makin' Money"
• Anon. / Why the Sister in Black Works Hardest
• Anon. / "De Reason Niggers Is Working So Hard"
• Anon. / The Ventriloquist
• Anon. / You Talk Too Much, Anyhow
• Anon. / A Flying Fool
• Anon. / Brer Rabbit Tricks Brer Fox Again
• Anon. / The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
• Anon. / How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
• Anon. / The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf
• Anon. / What the Rabbit Learned

The Literature of Slavery and Freedom : 1746-1865.
• [Introduction]: The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865
• Jupiter Hammon / An Evening Thought
• Jupiter Hammon / An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatly
• Venture Smith / A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America
• Lucy Terry / Bars Fight
• Olaudah Equiano / The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself: excerpts: Volume 1. Chapter I ; Chapter II ; from Chapter III ; from Chapter IV
• Phillis Wheatley / Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Mora: front matter: Preface; [Letter Sent by the Author's Master to the Publisher]; [To the Publick]
• Phillis Wheatley / To Mæcenas
• Phillis Wheatley / To the University of Cambridge, in New-England
• Phillis Wheatley / On Being Brought from Africa to America
• Phillis Wheatley / On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770
• Phillis Wheatley / To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, Etc.
• Phillis Wheatley / On Imagination
• Phillis Wheatley / To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
• Phillis Wheatley / To Samson Occom
• Phillis Wheatley / To His Excellency General Washington
• David Walker / David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World: excerpts: Preamble; Article I : Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery
• George Moses Horton / The Lover's Farewell
• George Moses Horton / On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom
• George Moses Horton / Division of an Estate
• George Moses Horton / The Creditor to His Proud Debtor
• George Moses Horton / George Moses Horton, Myself
• Sojourner Truth / Ar'n't I a Woman? Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851: version from The "Anti-Slavery Bugle", June 21, 1851
• Sojourner Truth / Ar'n't I a Woman? Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851: version from The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878
• Maria W. Stewart / Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build: excerpt: Introduction
• Maria W. Stewart / Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832
• Martin R. Delany / The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States: excerpts: Chapter I. Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered; Chapter II. Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States; Chapter V. Means of Elevation; Chapter XXIII. Things as They Are; Chapter XXIV. A Glance at Ourselves--Conclusion
• Harriet Jacobs / Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: excerpts: Preface; I. Childhood; II. The New Master and Mistress; V. The Trials of Girlhood; X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life; XIV. Another Link to Life; XVII: The Flight; XXI. The Loophole of Retreat; XXIX. Preparations for Escape; XXXIX. The Confession; XL. The Fugitive Slave Law; XLI. Free at Last
• William Wells Brown / Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave: excerpts: Chapter V; from Chapter VI
• William Wells Brown / Clotel, or, The President's Daughter: excerpts: Chapter 1. The Negro Sale; Chapter II. Going to the South; Chapter IV. The Quadroon's Home; Chapter XV. To-day a Mistress, Tomorrow a Slave; Chapter XIX. Escape of Clotel
• Henry Highland Garnet / An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
• Victor Séjour / The Mulatto
• Elizabeth Keckley / Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House: excerpts: Preface; Chapter I. Where I Was Born; Chapter II. Girlhood and Its Sorrows; Chapter III. How I Gained My Freedom; Chapter IV. In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis
• Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
• Frederick Douglass / My Bondage and My Freedom: excerpts: Chapter XXIII. Introduced to the Abolitionists; Chapter XXIV. Twenty-one Months in Great Britain
• Frederick Douglass / What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? : An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852: excerpt
• Frederick Douglass / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: excerpts: Second Part: from Chapter XV : Weighed in the Balance; Third Part: Chapter I. Later Life
• James M. Whitfield / America
• James M. Whitfield / Yes! Strike Again That Sounding String
• James M. Whitfield / Self-Reliance
• Frances E. W. Harper / Ethiopia
• Frances E. W. Harper / Eliza Harris
• Frances E. W. Harper / The Slave Mother
• Frances E. W. Harper / Vashti
• Frances E. W. Harper / Bury Me in a Free Land
• Frances E. W. Harper / Aunt Chloe's Politics
• Frances E. W. Harper / Learning to Read
• Frances E. W. Harper / A Double Standar
• Frances E. W. Harper / Songs for the People
• Frances E. W. Harper / An Appeal to My Country Women
• Frances E. W. Harper / The Two Offers
• Frances E. W. Harper / Our Greatest Want
• Frances E. W. Harper / Fancy Etchings: [Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations]
• Frances E. W. Harper / Fancy Etchings: [Dangerous Economies ]
• Frances E. W. Harper / Woman's Political Future
• Harriet E. Wilson / Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North: excerpts: Preface; Chapter I. Mag Smith, My Mother; Chapter II. My Father's Death; Chapter III. A New Home for Me; from Chapter VIII. Visitor and Departure; Chapter X. Perplexities--Another Death; Chapter XII. The Winding Up of the Matter

Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance: 1865-1919
• [Introduction]: Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance 1865-1919
• Charlotte Forten Grimké / A Parting Hymn
• Charlotte Forten Grimké / Journals: excerpts: from Journal One; from Journal Three
• Booker T. Washington / Up from Slavery: excerpts: Chapter I. A Slave among Slaves; Chapter II. Boyhood Days; Chapter III. The Struggle for an Education; Chapter XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address
• Charles W. Chesnutt / The Goopherd Grapevine
• Charles W. Chesnutt / The Passing of Grandison
• Charles W. Chesnutt / The Wife of His Youth
• Charles W. Chesnutt / The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt (excerpt)
• Anna Julia Cooper / Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race
• Pauline E. Hopkins / Talma Gordon
• Pauline E. Hopkins / Famous Men of the Negro Race: excerpt: Booker T. Washington
• Pauline E. Hopkins / Famous Women of the Negro Race: excerpt: V. Literary Workers (Concluded)
• Pauline E. Hopkins / Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's Reply (March 1903)
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett / A Red Record: excerpts: Chapter I. The Case Stated; Chapter X. The Remedy
• W. E. B. Du Bois / A Litany of Atlanta
• W. E. B. Du Bois / The Song of the Smoke
• W. E. B. Du Bois / The Souls of Black Folk: excerpts: The Forethought; I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings; III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others; IV. Of the Meaning of Progress; V. Of the Wings of Atalanta; VI. Of the Training of Black Men; X. Of the Faith of the Fathers; XI. Of the Passing of the First-Born; XII. Of Alexander Crummell; XIII. Of the Coming of John; XIV. The Sorrow Songs; The After-Thought
• W. E. B. Du Bois / The Damnation of Women
• W. E. B. Du Bois / Criteria of Negro Art
• W. E. B. Du Bois / Two Novels
• James D. Corrothers / The Snapping of the Bow
• James D. Corrothers / Me 'n' Dunbar
• James D. Corrothers / Paul Laurence Dunbar
• James D. Corrothers / At the Closed Gate of Justice
• James D. Corrothers / An Indignation Dinner
• James Weldon Johnson / Sence You Went Away
• James Weldon Johnson / Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
• James Weldon Johnson / O Black and Unknown Bards
• James Weldon Johnson / Fifty Years
• James Weldon Johnson / Brothers
• James Weldon Johnson / The Creation
• James Weldon Johnson / My City
• James Weldon Johnson / The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
• James Weldon Johnson / The Book of American Negro Poetry: Preface
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Ode to Ethiopia
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Worn Out
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Negro Love Song
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Colored Soldiers
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / An Ante-Bellum Sermon
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Not They Who Soar
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / When Malindy Sings
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / We Wear the Mask
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Little Brown Baby
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Her Thought and His
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / A Cabin Tale
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Sympathy
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Dinah Kneading Dough
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Haunted Oak
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Douglass
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Philosophy
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / Black Samson of Brandywine
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Poet
• Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Fourth of July and Race Outrages
• Sutton E. Griggs / The Hindered Hand, or, The Reign of the Repressionist: excerpts: Chapter XIX. The Fugitives Flee Again; Chapter XX. The Blaze
• Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson / Violets
• Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson / I Sit and Sew
• Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson / April Is on the Way
• Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson / Violets
• William Stanley Braithwaite / The Watchers
• William Stanley Braithwaite / The House of Falling Leaves
• William Stanley Braithwaite / Sic Vita
• William Stanley Braithwaite / Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves
• William Stanley Braithwaite / Quiet Has a Hidden Sound
• Fenton Johnson / Singing Hallelujia
• Fenton Johnson / Song of the Whirlwind
• Fenton Johnson / My God in Heaven Said to Me
• Fenton Johnson / The Lonely Mother
• Fenton Johnson / Tired
• Fenton Johnson / The Scarlet Woman

Harlem Renaissance : 1919-1940.
• [Introduction]: Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1940
• Arthur A. Schomburg / The Negro Digs up His Past
• Angelina Weld Grimké / A Winter Twilight
• Angelina Weld Grimké / The Black Finger
• Angelina Weld Grimké / When the Green Lies over the Earth
• Angelina Weld Grimké / Tenebris
• Anne Spencer / Before the Feast of Shushan
• Anne Spencer / Dunbar
• Anne Spencer / At the Carnival
• Anne Spencer / The Wife-Woman
• Jessie Redmon Fauset / Plum Bun : A Novel Without a Moral: excerpts: from Home: Chapter I [Black Philadelphia]; Chapter II [Sundays]
• Alain Locke / The New Negro
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / The Heart of a Woman
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Youth
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / Lost Illusions
• Georgia Douglas Johnson / I Want to Die While You Love Me
• Marcus Garvey / Africa for the Africans
• Marcus Garvey / The Future as I See It
• Claude McKay / Harlem Shadows
• Claude McKay / If We Must Die
• Claude McKay / To the White Fiends
• Claude McKay / Africa
• Claude McKay / America
• Claude McKay / My Mother
• Claude McKay / Enslaved
• Claude McKay / The White House
• Claude McKay / Outcast
• Claude McKay / St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd
• Claude McKay / Home to Harlem: excerpt: Chapter XVII. He Also Loved
• Claude McKay / Harlem Runs Wild
• Zora Neale Hurston / Sweat
• Zora Neale Hurston / How It Feels to Be Colored Me
• Zora Neale Hurston / The Gilded Six-Bits
• Zora Neale Hurston / Characteristics of Negro Expression
• Zora Neale Hurston / Mules and Men: excerpt: [Negro Folklore]
• Zora Neale Hurston / Their Eyes Were Watching God: excerpts: Chapter 1 [The Return]; Chapter 2 [Pear Tree]
• Zora Neale Hurston / Dust Tracks on a Road: excerpt: Chapter X. Research
• Nella Larsen / Quicksand
• Jean Toomer / Cane
• George Samuel Schuyler / The Negro-Art Hokum
• Rudolph Fisher / The City of Refuge
• Rudolph Fisher / The Caucasian Storms Harlem
• Marita Bonner / On Being Young, a Woman, and Colored
• Sterling A. Brown / Odyssey of Big Boy
• Sterling A. Brown / Long Gone
• Sterling A. Brown / Southern Road
• Sterling A. Brown / Strong Men
• Sterling A. Brown / Memphis Blues
• Sterling A. Brown / Slim Greer
• Sterling A. Brown / Tin Roof Blues
• Sterling A. Brown / Ma Rainey
• Sterling A. Brown / Cabaret
• Sterling A. Brown / Sporting Beasley
• Sterling A. Brown / Sam Smiley
• Sterling A. Brown / Old Lem
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Heritage
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett / To a Dark Girl
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Sonnet, 2
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett / Hatred
• Wallace Thurman / Infants of the Spring: excerpt: Chapter XXI [Harlem Salon]
• Arna Bontemps / A Black Man Talks of Reaping
• Arna Bontemps / Nocturne at Bethesda
• Arna Bontemps / Southern Mansion
• Arna Bontemps / Miracles
• Arna Bontemps / A Summer Tragedy
• Langston Hughes / The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Langston Hughes / Mother to Son
• Langston Hughes / Danse Africaine
• Langston Hughes / Jazzonia
• Langston Hughes / When Sue Wears Red
• Langston Hughes / Dream Variations
• Langston Hughes / The Weary Blues
• Langston Hughes / I, Too
• Langston Hughes / Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret
• Langston Hughes / Homesick Blues
• Langston Hughes / Po' Boy Blues
• Langston Hughes / Mulatto
• Langston Hughes / Red Silk Stockings
• Langston Hughes / Song for a Dark Girl
• Langston Hughes / Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover
• Langston Hughes / Dear Lovely Death
• Langston Hughes / Afro-American Fragment
• Langston Hughes / Negro Servant
• Langston Hughes / Christ in Alabama
• Langston Hughes / Letter to the Academy
• Langston Hughes / Ballad of the Landlord
• Langston Hughes / Merry-Go-Round
• Langston Hughes / Madam and the Rent Man
• Langston Hughes / Trumpet Player
• Langston Hughes / Madam and the Phone Bill
• Langston Hughes / Song for Billie Holiday
• Langston Hughes / Juke Box Love Song
• Langston Hughes / Dream Boogie
• Langston Hughes / Harlem
• Langston Hughes / Motto
• Langston Hughes / Theme for English B
• Langston Hughes / Not What Was
• Langston Hughes / The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
• Langston Hughes / The Blues I'm Playing
• Langston Hughes / The Big Sea: excerpt: When the Negro Was in Vogue; Harlem Literati; Downtown
• Countee Cullen / Yet Do I Marvel
• Countee Cullen / Tableau
• Countee Cullen / Incident
• Countee Cullen / Saturday's Child
• Countee Cullen / The Shroud of Color
• Countee Cullen / Heritage
• Countee Cullen / To John Keats, Poet at Spring Time
• Countee Cullen / From the Dark Tower
• Helene Johnson / Poem
• Helene Johnson / Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
• Helene Johnson / Remember Not
• Helene Johnson / Invocation

Realism, Naturalism, Modernism : 1940-1960.
• [Introduction]: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism 1940-1960
• Melvin B. Tolson / An Ex-Judge at the Bar
• Melvin B. Tolson / Dark Symphony
• Melvin B. Tolson / A Legend of Versailles
• Melvin B. Tolson / Libretto for the Republic of Liberia (excerpt)
• Melvin B. Tolson / The Birth of John Henry
• Melvin B. Tolson / Satchmo
• Dorothy West / The Living is Easy: excerpts: Part One: Chapter 1 [Cleo]; Chapter 2 [Cleo's High Jinks]; Chapter 3 [Cleo Goes North]
• Richard Wright / Blueprint for Negro Writing
• Richard Wright / The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an Autobiographical Sketch
• Richard Wright / Long Black Song
• Richard Wright / The Man Who Lived Underground
• Richard Wright / Black Boy: excerpts: Chapter XIII. [Booklist]; Chapter XVI. [Chicago]
• Chester B. Himes / To What Red Hell
• Ann Petry / Like a Winding Sheet
• Ann Petry / The Street: excerpt: Chapter 1 [The Apartment]
• Robert Hayden / The Diver
• Robert Hayden / Homage to the Empress of the Blues
• Robert Hayden / Middle Passage
• Robert Hayden / Those Winter Sundays
• Robert Hayden / O Daedalus, Fly Away Home
• Robert Hayden / Runagate Runagate
• Robert Hayden / Frederick Douglass
• Robert Hayden / A Ballad of Remembrance
• Robert Hayden / Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
• Robert Hayden / Soledad
• Robert Hayden / El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
• Robert Hayden / A Letter from Phillis Wheatley
• Ralph Ellison / Richard Wright's Blues
• Ralph Ellison / Invisible Man: excerpts: Prologue; Chapter 1 [Battle Royal]; Epilogue
• Ralph Ellison / Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke
• Ralph Ellison / The World and the Jug
• Ralph Ellison / Remembering Richard Wright
• Ralph Ellison / Letter to Stanley Edgar Hyman
• Margaret Walker / For My People
• Margaret Walker / Poppa Chicken
• Margaret Walker / For Malcolm X
• Margaret Walker / Prophets for a New Day
• Gwendolyn Brooks / kitchenette building
• Gwendolyn Brooks / the mother
• Gwendolyn Brooks / a song in the front yard
• Gwendolyn Brooks / Sadie and Maud
• Gwendolyn Brooks / the vacant lot
• Gwendolyn Brooks / the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon
• Gwendolyn Brooks / The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith
• Gwendolyn Brooks / Maxie Allen
• Gwendolyn Brooks / The Rites for Cousin Vit
• Gwendolyn Brooks / The Children of the Poor
• Gwendolyn Brooks / The Lovers of the Poor
• Gwendolyn Brooks / We Real Cool
• Gwendolyn Brooks / The Chicago 'Defender' Sends a Man to Little Rock
• Gwendolyn Brooks / A Lovely Love
• Gwendolyn Brooks / Malcolm X
• Gwendolyn Brooks / Two Dedications
• Gwendolyn Brooks / Riot
• Gwendolyn Brooks / The Third Sermon on the Warpland
• Gwendolyn Brooks / Young Heroes
• Gwendolyn Brooks / when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story
• Gwendolyn Brooks / Maud Martha
• James Baldwin / Everybody's Protest Novel
• James Baldwin / Many Thousands Gone
• James Baldwin / Stranger in the Village
• James Baldwin / Notes of a Native Son
• James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues
• James Baldwin / Going to Meet the Man
• Bob Kaufman / Walking Parker Home
• Bob Kaufman / Grandfather Was Queer, Too
• Bob Kaufman / Jail Poems
• Lorraine Hansberry / A Raisin in the Sun

The Black Arts Era : 1960-1975
• [Introduction]: The Black Arts Era 1960-1975
• Mari Evans / Status Symbol
• Mari Evans / I Am a Black Woman
• Hoyt Fuller / Towards a Black Aesthetic
• Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) / The Autobiography of Malcolm X: excerpt: Chapter 11. Saved
• John Alfred Williams / The Man Who Cried I Am: excerpts: Chapter 1 [In an Outdoor Cafe]; Chapter 2 [Memories, Margrit, and Morphine]; Chapter 3 [Picture of the Writer]
• Martin Luther King, Jr. / Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Etheridge Knight / The Idea of Ancestry
• Etheridge Knight / Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
• Etheridge Knight / For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
• Addison Gayle Jr. / The Black Aesthetic: excerpt: Introduction
• Audre Lorde / Equinox
• Audre Lorde / Coal
• Audre Lorde / Now That I Am Forever with Child
• Audre Lorde / A Litany for Survival
• Audre Lorde / Poetry Is Not a Luxury
• Audre Lorde / Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: excerpts: from 3; from 11; from 31; Epilogue
• Amiri Baraka / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
• Amiri Baraka / In Memory of Radio
• Amiri Baraka / A Poem for Black Hearts
• Amiri Baraka / I don't love you
• Amiri Baraka / Three Movements and a Coda
• Amiri Baraka / SOS
• Amiri Baraka / Black Art
• Amiri Baraka / The Invention of Comics
• Amiri Baraka / Wailers
• Amiri Baraka / Dutchman
• Amiri Baraka / The Revolutionary Theatre
• Sonia Sanchez / homecoming
• Sonia Sanchez / poem at thirty
• Sonia Sanchez / for our lady
• Sonia Sanchez / Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict
• Sonia Sanchez / A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women: excerpt: Part Three: Present
• Ed Bullins / Goin' a Buffalo: A Tragifantasy
• Eldridge Cleaver / Soul on Ice: excerpt: The Primeval Mitosis
• A. B. Spellman / Did John's Music Kill Him?
• June Jordan / In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
• June Jordan / Poem about My Rights
• June Jordan / Poem for Guatemala
• June Jordan / Intifada
• June Jordan / Civil Wars: Observations from the Front Lines of America (excerpt)
• June Jordan / Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (excerpt)
• Lucille Clifton / the lost baby poem
• Lucille Clifton / (later i'll say)
• Lucille Clifton / malcolm
• Lucille Clifton / homage to my hips
• Lucille Clifton / wishes for sons
• Lucille Clifton / move
• Jayne Cortez / How Long Has Trane Been Gone
• Larry Neal / The Black Arts Movement
• Ishmael Reed / I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra
• Ishmael Reed / Railroad Bill, a Conjure Man
• Ishmael Reed / Dualism
• Ishmael Reed / Chattanooga
• Ishmael Reed / Neo-HooDoo Manifesto
• Ishmael Reed / Mumbo Jumbo (excerpt)
• Michael S. Harper / Dear John, Dear Coltrane
• Michael S. Harper / Deathwatch
• Michael S. Harper / Br'er Sterling and the Rocker
• Michael S. Harper / Grandfather
• Toni Cade Bambara / Raymond's Run
• Toni Cade Bambara / The Salt Eaters (excerpt)
• Maulana Karenga / Black Art: Mute Matter Given Force and Function
• Haki R. Madhubuti / Back Again, Home
• Haki R. Madhubuti / Introduction [to "Think Black"]
• Haki R. Madhubuti / The Long Reality
• Haki R. Madhubuti / Malcolm Spoke/who listened?
• Haki R. Madhubuti / a poem to complement other poems
• Nikki Giovanni / For Saundra
• Nikki Giovanni / Beautiful Black Men
• Nikki Giovanni / Nikki-Rosa
• Nikki Giovanni / Knoxville, Tennessee
• Nikki Giovanni / From a Logical Point of View
• James Alan McPherson / A Solo Song: For Doc
• Quincy Troupe / In Texas Grass
• Quincy Troupe / Conversation Overheard
• Quincy Troupe / Impressions / of Chicago, For Howlin' Wolf
• Carolyn Rodgers / Jesus Was Crucified
• Carolyn Rodgers / It Is Deep
• Carolyn Rodgers / For Sistuhs Wearin' Straight Hair

Literature since 1975
• [Introduction]: Literature since 1975
• Albert Murray / Train Whistle Guitar: excerpt: [History Lessons]
• Maya Angelou / Still I Rise
• Maya Angelou / My Arkansas
• Maya Angelou / I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: excerpts: Chapter 15 [Mrs. Flowers]; Chapter 16 ["Mam"]
• Paule Marshall / Reena
• Paule Marshall / To Da-Duh, in Memoriam
• Paule Marshall / The Making of a Writer: From the Poets in the Kitchen
• Adrienne Kennedy / A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White
• Toni Morrison / Song of Solomon: excerpts: Part II: Chapters 10-15
• Toni Morrison / Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation
• Toni Morrison / The Site of Memory
• Toni Morrison / Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature
• Ernest J. Gaines / The Sky Is Gray
• Clarence Major / Swallow the Lake
• Clarence Major / Round Midnight
• Clarence Major / On Watching a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly
• Clarence Major / Chicago Heat
• Leon Forrest / There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden: excerpt: The Epistle of Sweetie Reed
• John Edgar Wideman / Brothers and Keepers: excerpt: [Robby's Version]
• John Edgar Wideman / Damballah
• Samuel R. Delany / Atlantis: Model 1924 (excerpt)
• Sherley Anne Williams / The Peacock Poems: 1
• Sherley Anne Williams / I Want Aretha to Set This to Music
• Sherley Anne Williams / Tell Martha Not to Moan
• Alice Walker / Women
• Alice Walker / Outcast
• Alice Walker / On Stripping Bark from Myself
• Alice Walker / "Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning"
• Alice Walker / In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
• Alice Walker / Everyday Use
• Alice Walker / Advancing Luna--and Ida B. Wells
• Alice Walker / The Color Purple: excerpt: [God Love All Them Feelings]
• August Wilson / Joe Turner's Come and Gone
• Michelle Cliff / Within the Veil
• Michelle Cliff / Columba
• Octavia Butler / Bloodchild
• Yusef Komunyakaa / February in Sydney
• Yusef Komunyakaa / Facing It
• Yusef Komunyakaa / Sunday Afternoons
• Yusef Komunyakaa / Banking Potatoes
• Yusef Komunyakaa / Birds on a Powerline • Nathaniel Mackey / Falso Brilhante
• Nathaniel Mackey / Song of the Andoumboulou: 8
• Nathaniel Mackey / Djbot Baghostu's Run: excerpt: 26. IX. 81
• Charles Johnson / The Education of Mingo
• Ntozake Shange / for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (excerpt)
• Ntozake Shange / Nappy Edges
• Ntozake Shange / Bocas : A Daughter's Geography
• Gayl Jones / Corregidora (excerpt)
• Jamaica Kincaid / Annie John: excerpt: Chapter Two: The Circling Hand
• David Bradley / The Chaneysville Incident: excerpt: [Old Jack]
• Gloria Naylor / The Women of Brewster Place: excerpt: The Two
• Rita Dove / David Walker (1785-1830)
• Rita Dove / Parsley
• Rita Dove / Receiving the Stigmata
• Rita Dove / The Event (from "Thomas and Beulah")
• Rita Dove / Motherhood (from "Thomas and Beulah")
• Rita Dove / Daystar (from "Thomas and Beulah")
• Rita Dove / The Oriental Ballerina (from "Thomas and Beulah")
• Rita Dove / Pastoral
• Rita Dove / Persephone Abducted (from "Mother Love")
• Rita Dove / Statistic: The Witness (from "Mother Love")
• Rita Dove / Mother Love (from "Mother Love")
• Rita Dove / Demeter Mourning (from "Mother Love")
• Rita Dove / History (from "Mother Love")
• Rita Dove / Demeter's Prayer to Hades (from "Mother Love")
• Walter Mosley / Equal Opportunity
• Harryette Mullen / [Sapphire's lyre styles] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [country clothes hung on her all and sundry] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [odds meeting on a bus] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [why these blues come from us] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [go on sister sing your song] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [tomboy girl with cowboy boots] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [sauce squandering sassy cook] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [marry at a hotel, annul 'em] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [precious cargo up cooked alleys] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [with all that rope they gave us] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [the royal yellow sovereign] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [tom-tom can't catch] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [massa had a yeller] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [cough drops prick thick] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [ain't cut drylongso] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [soulless diavism] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Harryette Mullen / [moon, whoever you knew] (from "Muse & Drudge")
• Essex Hemphill / Conditions: excerpts: XXI; XXII; XXIV
• Caryl Phillips / Crossing the River: excerpt: II. West
• Edwidge Danticat / Breath, Eyes, Memory: excerpt: Chapter 1, Chapter 35

Timeline: African American Literature in Context
Selected Bibliography
• Robert G. O'Meally / Audio Companion Notes
Text Permissions Acknowledgments
Audio Companion Permissions Acknowledgments
Index

• This second edition modifies the selection of spirituals, of blues, and other vernacular tradition works; adds a selection of "Songs of Social Change"; adds a selection of "Rhythm and Blues"; relabels the selection of "Rap" songs to "Hip Hop" and adds some new selections; relabels "Sermons" to "Sermons and Prayers" and adds some new selections; the selection of "Folktales" is trimmed a little.
• The section on "The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: 1746-1865" adds selections from Jupiter Hammon, Venture Smith, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Keckley. It deletes the selection from "Ada" [Sarah L. Forten].
• The section on "Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance, 1865-1919" adds an excerpt from Charles W. Chesnutt's Journals; drops Pauline E. Hopkins' "Contending Forces" (excerpts) but adds her "Talma Gordon"; it gives extensive selections from W. E. B. Du Bois's "The Souls of Black Folk" (instead of the whole work).
• The section on the "Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1940" drops one poem by Angelina Weld Grimké ("For the Candle Light"); it drops two pieces by Anne Spencer ("Lady, Lady" and "Letter to My Sister"); it drops one piece by Georgia Douglas Johnson ("My Little Dreams"); it includes Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" complete (instead of just excerpts); it gives extensive selections from Jean Toomer's "Cane" (rather than the whole work); it drops Eric Walrond's one selection ("The Wharf Rats"); it adds one item by Sterling A. Brown ("Old Lem"); it drops "Golgotha Is a Mountain" by Arna Bontemps; it replaces Langston Hughes' "A House in Taos" with "Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret" and his "Gypsy Man" with "Mulatto"; it drops Langston Hughes's "Lament over Love," "Bad Man," "Hard Daddy," "Sylvester's Dying Bed" and the three excerpts from "The Best of Simple" and adds: "Dear Lovely Death," "Afro-American Fragment," "Negro Servant," "Christ in Alabama," "Letter to the Academy," "Merry-Go-Round," "Madam and the Rent Man," "Trumpet Player," "Madam and the Phone Bill," "Song for Billie Holiday," "Theme for English B," "Not What Was".
• In the section on "Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, 1940-1960," Melvin Tolson's "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia" is excerpted (rather than given complete); Chester Himes's "To What Red Hell" replaces his "Salute to the Passing"; Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" is a new addition; also new are Ralph Ellison's "Richard Wright's Blues," "Remembering Richard Wright" and "Letter to Stanley Edgar Hyman"; also new is James Baldwin's "Going to Meet the Man"; two pieces by Bob Kaufman are omitted ("Unanimity Has Been Achieved, Not a Dot Less for Its Accidentalness" and "War Memoir: Jazz, Don't Listen to It at Your Own Risk").
• The section on "The Black Arts Era" (rather than "the Black Arts Movement") now stretches from "1960-1975" (rather than "1960-1970"). Amiri Baraka's "Wailers" is new to this edition; there are two new items by Nikki Giovanni ("Knoxville, Tennessee" and "From a Logical Point of View"). Newly shifted into this section (from the final section) are the selections from Audre Lorde (six of them rather than seven: dropping "Father Son and Holy Ghost," "The Winds of Orisha," "The Evening News" but adding "Equinox" and selections from "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name"), June Jordan (six instead of seven: omitting "I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies," "The Female and the Silence of a Man," and "A New Politics of Sexuality" and adding excerpts from "Civil Wars: Observations from the Front Lines of Ameria" and from "Soldier: A Poet's Childhood"), Lucille Clifton (six rather than twelve: dropping "[the bodies broken on]," "prayer," "[Kali])," "[if mama / could see]," "[what spells raccoon to me]," "1. at jonestown," "[a woman who loves]," but adding "[later i'll say]), Ishmael Reed (six instead of seven: dropping "Oakland Blues"), Michael S. Harper (four instead of eight: dropping "Here Where Coltrane Is," "Goin' to the Territory," "In Hayden's Collage," and "The Ghost of Soul-Making"), and Toni Cade Bambara (two instead of one: adding excerpt from "The Salt Eaters").
• The final section is now titled "Literature since 1975" (rather than since 1970). Instead of the whole of Toni Morrison's "Sula," there are excerpts from her "Song of Solomon," along with three shorter pieces by her. As noted above, six authors shifted from this section to the previous one (Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, Ishmael Reed, Michael S. Harper, and Toni Cade Bambara). The four selections from Colleen McElroy are all omitted ("Pike Street Bus," "The Griots Who Know Brer Fox," "Tapestries," and "Caledonia"), as are the three selections from Al Young ("A Dance for Ma Rainey," "Conjugal Visits," and excerpts from "The Seduction of Light"), the seven selections from Wanda Coleman ("Emmett Till," "Today I Am a Homicide in the North of the City," "be quiet, go away," "At the Record Hop," "American Sonnet (10)," "Bedtime Story," and "Mastectomy"), and the one selection from Terry McMillan ("Quilting on the Rebound"). August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" replaces his "Fences"; and Walter Mosley's "Equal Opportunity" replaces excerpts from "Devil in a Blue Dress." Newly added is a selection from Gayl Jones (excerpt from "Corregidora"), 17 items by Harryette Mullen, one item by Caryl Phillips ("II. West"), two excerpts from Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory" (Chapters 1 and 35), and three excerpts from Colson Whitehead's "John Henry Days."

• Re 2nd edition (2004): "Nine writers are newly included, among them Jupiter Hammon, Martin Delany, Caryl Phillips, Colson Whitehead, and Harryette Mullen. The anthology opens with a generous section of blues, spirituals, jazz, hip-hop, sermons, and speeches, many of which are brought to life on the expanded two-CD set which includes vocal and instrumental pieces from ragtime to Motown, and twenty-four speeches, readings, and performances by powerful voices from Booker T. Washington to Rita Dove. With a general introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr., updated period introductions, head-notes, and bibliographies" (WorldCat).

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