African American West: A Century of Short Stories
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African American West: A Century of Short Stories
This edition
"The African American West: A Century of Short Stories." Ed. Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion. Boulder: UP of Colorado, 2000. xi+463 pp.
Table of contents
● Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion / Preface
● Acknowledgements
● Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion / Introduction: African Americans in the West, A Short Story Tradition
Turn of the Century: Establishing the Tradition
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Ingrate
● Colleen McElroy / A Brief Spell by the River
● Eugene P. Frierson / An Adventure in the Big Horn Mountains; or, The Trials and Tribulations of a Recruit
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Averted Strike
● Pauline E. Hopkins / As the Lord Lives, He is One of Our Mother's Children
Meanwhile . . . ,1920s and 1930s
● W.E.B. DuBois / Jesus Christ in Texas
● William Pickens / Jim Crow in Texas
● Anita Scott Coleman / The Little Grey House
● Julian Elihu Bagley / Children of Chance
● Nick Aaron Ford / Let the Church Roll On
● Arna Bontemps / Why I Returned
● March Lacy / No Fools, No Fun
● Langston Hughes / The Gun
● Margaret Williams / Grazing in Good Pastures
Then Confront World War II and Aftermath.
● Ralph Ellison / Mister Toussan
● Frank Yerby / Health Card
● John Wesley Groves IV / Stop, Thief!
● Chester Himes / Lunching at the Ritzmore
● John O. Killens / God Bless America
● Malvin Wald / Keys to the City
We Too—Freedom and Civil Rights
● John A. Williams / Son in the Afternoon
● Mike Thelwell / Direct Action
● Johnie Scott / The Coming of the Hoodlum
● John R. Posey / Ticket to Freedom
● Jack Burris / Judah’s a Two-Way Street Running Out
● Maxine Clair / Water seeks Its Own Level
● Eldridge Cleaver / The Flashlight
● Ed Bullins / Support Your Local Police
Women Need Apply Here
● Ntozake Shange / Ridin’ the Moon in Texas
● Joyce Carol Thomas / Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses
● Aya de Leon / Tell Me Moore
● Terry McMillan / Quilting on the Rebound
● Rita Dove / Damon and Vandalia
● Harryette Mullen / Tenderhead
● Wanda Coleman / The Friday Night Shift at the Taco House Blues (Wah-Wah)
● Charlotte Watson Sherman / Emerald City: Third & Pike
And It's Called Progress???
● James Alan McPherson / Elbow Room
● Jewell Parker Rhodes / Long Distances
● Cecil M. Brown / Now Is the Time
● Percival Everett / Cry About a Nickel
● John Edgar Wideman / Surfiction
● William Henry Lewis / The Trip Back from Whidbey
● Carolyn Ferrell / Wonderful Teen
● Reginald McKnight / The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
● Walter Mosley / Equal Opportunity
● Sunny Nash / Amen
● Contributors
● Bibliography
● Permissions
● Acknowledgements
● Bruce A. Glasrud and Laurie Champion / Introduction: African Americans in the West, A Short Story Tradition
Turn of the Century: Establishing the Tradition
● Paul Laurence Dunbar / The Ingrate
● Colleen McElroy / A Brief Spell by the River
● Eugene P. Frierson / An Adventure in the Big Horn Mountains; or, The Trials and Tribulations of a Recruit
● Charles W. Chesnutt / The Averted Strike
● Pauline E. Hopkins / As the Lord Lives, He is One of Our Mother's Children
Meanwhile . . . ,1920s and 1930s
● W.E.B. DuBois / Jesus Christ in Texas
● William Pickens / Jim Crow in Texas
● Anita Scott Coleman / The Little Grey House
● Julian Elihu Bagley / Children of Chance
● Nick Aaron Ford / Let the Church Roll On
● Arna Bontemps / Why I Returned
● March Lacy / No Fools, No Fun
● Langston Hughes / The Gun
● Margaret Williams / Grazing in Good Pastures
Then Confront World War II and Aftermath.
● Ralph Ellison / Mister Toussan
● Frank Yerby / Health Card
● John Wesley Groves IV / Stop, Thief!
● Chester Himes / Lunching at the Ritzmore
● John O. Killens / God Bless America
● Malvin Wald / Keys to the City
We Too—Freedom and Civil Rights
● John A. Williams / Son in the Afternoon
● Mike Thelwell / Direct Action
● Johnie Scott / The Coming of the Hoodlum
● John R. Posey / Ticket to Freedom
● Jack Burris / Judah’s a Two-Way Street Running Out
● Maxine Clair / Water seeks Its Own Level
● Eldridge Cleaver / The Flashlight
● Ed Bullins / Support Your Local Police
Women Need Apply Here
● Ntozake Shange / Ridin’ the Moon in Texas
● Joyce Carol Thomas / Young Reverend Zelma Lee Moses
● Aya de Leon / Tell Me Moore
● Terry McMillan / Quilting on the Rebound
● Rita Dove / Damon and Vandalia
● Harryette Mullen / Tenderhead
● Wanda Coleman / The Friday Night Shift at the Taco House Blues (Wah-Wah)
● Charlotte Watson Sherman / Emerald City: Third & Pike
And It's Called Progress???
● James Alan McPherson / Elbow Room
● Jewell Parker Rhodes / Long Distances
● Cecil M. Brown / Now Is the Time
● Percival Everett / Cry About a Nickel
● John Edgar Wideman / Surfiction
● William Henry Lewis / The Trip Back from Whidbey
● Carolyn Ferrell / Wonderful Teen
● Reginald McKnight / The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
● Walter Mosley / Equal Opportunity
● Sunny Nash / Amen
● Contributors
● Bibliography
● Permissions
Item Number
A0337