Anthologies of African American Writing

Black Experience: An Anthology of American Literature for the 1970s

"The Black Experience: An Anthology of American Literature for the 1970s." Ed. Francis E. Kearns. New York: Viking, 1970. xx+650 pp.

● Arna Bontemps / Foreword
● Francis E. Kearns / Introduction

Negro Songs
● Anon. / John Henry
● Anon. / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
● Anon. / Nobody Knows De Trouble I See
● Anon. / All God's Chillun Got Shoes
● Anon. / We Shall Overcome
● Anon. / Go Down, Moses
● Anon. / Didn' My Lord Deliver Daniel?
● Anon. / No More Auction Block
● Anon. / Free At Las'.

● Edgar Allan Poe / From “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”
● William Gilmore Simms / Caloya; or, The Loves of the Driver
● Harriet Beecher Stowe / Topsy [from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”]
● Harriet Beecher Stowe / The Martyr [from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”]
● Harriet Beecher Stowe / A Letter to a Friend [from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”]
● John Pendleton Kennedy / The Quarter [from “Swallow Barn; or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion”]
● Walt Whitman / From Song of Myself [from “Leaves of Grass”]
● Walt Whitman / From I Sing the Body Electric [from “Leaves of Grass”]
● Walt Whitman / Ethiopia Saluting the Colors [from “Leaves of Grass”]
● Herman Melville / Benito Cereno
● G. P. R. James / From “The Old Dominion, or, The Southampton Massacre”
● Dion Boucicault / From “The Octoroon, or, Life in Louisiana”
● George Washington Cable / Palmyre Philosophe [from “The Grandissimes”]
● George Washington Cable / The Story of Bras-Coupé [from “The Grandissimes”]
● George Washington Cable / Clemence [from “The Grandissimes”]
● Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) / From “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
● Irwin Russell / Christmas-Night in the Quarters
● Joel Chandler Harris / Free Joe and the Rest of the World [from “Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches”]
● Joel Chandler Harris / Death and the Negro Man [from “Uncle Remus and His Friends”]
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Accountability
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Colored Soldiers
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / We Wear the Mask
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Why Fades a Dream?
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Sympathy
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The News
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Christmas on the Plantation
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / At Candle Lightin' Time
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Colored Band
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Black Samson of Brandywine
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / On the Dedication of Dorothy Hall
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / To the South
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / Compensation
● Charles W. Chestnutt / Po’ Sandy
● Charles W. Chestnutt / The Passing of Grandison
● Stephen Crane / The Knife
● Vachel Lindsay / The Congo
● W. E. B. DuBois / The Song of the Smoke
● W. E. B. DuBois / From “The Souls of Black Folk”
● Theodore Dreiser / Nigger Jeff
● James Weldon Johnson / O Black and Unknown Bards
● James Weldon Johnson / Go Down Death: a Funeral Sermon
● Claude McKay / Summer Morn in New Hampshire
● Claude McKay /Home Thoughts
● Claude McKay / Baptism
● Claude McKay / If We Must Die
● Claude McKay / The Lynching
● Claude McKay / Outcast
● Claude McKay / The Negro's Tragedy
● Claude McKay / America
● Claude McKay / Harlem Shadows
● Claude McKay / The White House
● Countee Cullen / Yet Do I Marvel
● Countee Cullen / A Song of Praise
● Countee Cullen / Incident
● Countee Cullen / Heritage
● Countee Cullen / From the Dark Tower
● Countee Cullen / Black Majesty
● Arna Bontemps / A Black Man Talks of Reaping
● Arna Bontemps / The Day-Breakers
● Arna Bontemps / Southern Mansion /
● Sherwood Anderson / From “The Man Who Became a Woman”
● Jean Toomer / Fern
● William Carlos Williams / Advent of the Slaves
● William Faulkner / Red Leaves
● James Thurber / A Sequence of Servants
● Richard Wright / The Man Who Went to Chicago
● Eudora Welty / A Worn Path
● Margaret Walker / For My People
● Melvin B. Tolson / Dark Symphony
● Lionel Trilling / The Other Margaret
● Langston Hughes / Daybreak in Alabama
● Langston Hughes / Roland Hayes Beaten (Georgia : 1942)
● Langston Hughes / Railroad Avenue
● Langston Hughes / Theme for English B
● Langston Hughes / High to Low
● Langston Hughes / Subway Rush Hour
● Langston Hughes / Harlem
● Langston Hughes / A Toast to Harlem
● Langston Hughes / Temptation
● Langston Hughes / Lenox Avenue Bar
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon
● Gwendolyn Brooks / People Who Have No Children Can Be Hard
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Bean Eaters
● Gwendolyn Brooks / The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Medgar Evers
● Ralph Ellison / The Art of Fiction: An Interview
● James Baldwin / Stranger in the Village [from “Notes of a Native Son”]
● Jack Kerouac / From “On the Road”
● Le Roi Jones / Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
● Le Roi Jones / Ostriches & Grandmothers
● Le Roi Jones / Way Out West
● Le Roi Jones / Notes for a Speech
● Le Roi Jones / A Poem for Black Hearts
● Chester Himes / Excursion in Paradox [from “Pinktoes”]
● Flannery O’Connor / Everything That Rises Must Converge
● Robert Hayden / Tour 5
● Robert Hayden / Runagate Runagate
● Eldridge Cleaver / On Watts [from “Soul on Ice”]
● Eldridge Cleaver / Soul Food [from “Soul on Ice"]
● Eldridge Cleaver / On Becoming [from “Soul on Ice”]

● Bibliography

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• Includes a "bibliography (pp. 639-650) of studies of black and white writers who have written on the black experience. Divided into two main sections: general studies of black literature and studies of individual black (selected articles on more than fifteen) and white writers" (Rowell 1972: 110).

not in Kinnamon 1997]

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