On Being Black: Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present
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Title
On Being Black: Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present
This edition
"On Being Black: Writings by Afro-Americans from Frederick Douglass to the Present" . Comp. Charles T. Davis and Daniel Walden. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1970. 383 pp.
Table of contents
First stirrings. Frederick Douglass from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- Charles W. Chesnutt / The wife of his youth -- Booker T. Washington / The educational outlook in the South -- W.E.B. Du Bois / Of our spiritual strivings; Of the passing of the first born -- Paul Laurence Dunbar / We wear the mask; Dawn -- W.E.B. Du Bois / The song of the smoke; A litany at Atlanta -- James Weldon Johnson / Go down death -- Coming of Age. Alain Locke / The Negro's contribution -- Jean Toomer / Excerpts from "Kabnis," from Cane -- Eric Walrond / The yellow one -- Rudolph Fisher / Miss Cynthie -- Arna Bontemps / A summer tragedy -- Langston Hughes / The Negro artist and the racial mountain -- Claude McKay / The tropics in New York; The White House: If we mus die -- Countee Cullen / Yet do I marvel; Fruit of the flower; Heritage -- Jean Toomer / Song of the son; Georgia dusk; Cotton song; Prayer -- Langston Hughes / Our land; Minstrel man; Dream variations; Jazzonia; Nude young dancer -- Early moderns. Richard Wright / Fear from Native Son -- Ralph Ellison / Prologue to Invisible Man -- James Baldwin / John's conversion from Go Tell it on the Mountain -- Ralph Ellison / The world and the jug -- Sterling A. Brown / When de saints go ma'chin home; Strange legacies; Sporting Beasley -- Langston Hughes / Lenox Avenue mural; The backlash blues; Daybreak in Alabama; Birmingham Sunday -- Margaret Walker / For my people -- Melvin B. Tolson / from Harlem Gallery; African China -- Owen Dodson / When I am dead; Sorrow is the only faithful one; Hymn written after Jeremiah preached to me in a dream -- Today and tomorrow. Leroi Jones / The myth of a "Negro literature" -- William Melvin Kelley / The only man on Liberty Street -- Eldridge Cleaver / Notes on a Native Son, from Home -- Bayard Rustin / Convocation address -- James Alan McPherson / A solo song for Doc -- Leroi Jones / The death of Nick Charles -- David Henderson / Keep on pushing; Boston road blues -- Robert Hayden / Frederick Douglass; Middle passage -- Gwendolyn Brooks / The children of the poor; The Chicago Picasso.
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Cited in
Kinnamon 1997: 463]
Item Number
A0132