Anthologies of African American Writing

Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood: From the Classic to the Contemporary

"Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood: From the Classic to the Contemporary" . Ed. William Banks. New York: Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2005. xvii+524 pp.

I. 1910s-1930s : the descendents of slaves emancipate a culture. Excerpt from The autobiography of an ex-colored man (1912) / James Weldon Johnson -- The negro's gift to mankind (1912) ; Excerpt from Dark princess (1928) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Excerpt from Nigger heaven (1926) / Carl Van Vechten -- Excerpt from Home to Harlem (1928) / Claude McKay -- Negro life in the New York's Harlem (1928) / Wallace Thurman -- Spunk (1935) ; Art and such (1938) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Excerpt from the Negro version of Macbeth (1936) / William Shakespeare and Orson Welles -- Excerpt from Drums at dusk (1939) / Arna Bontemps -- II. 1940s-1960s : the thunder roars. Mammy (1940) / Dorothy West -- Excerpt from The street (1946) / Ann Petry -- Excerpt from Go tell it on the mountain (1952) / James Baldwin -- Spanish blood (1959) / Langston Hughes -- Excerpt from Purlie Victorious (1961) / Ossie Davis -- Excerpt from Bird at my window (1966) / Rosa Guy -- Excerpt from dem (1967) / William Melvin Kelley -- Excerpt from This child's gonna live (1969) / Sarah Elizabeth Wright.; III. 1970s-2000s : and then we make the thunder. Excerpt from Daddy was a number runner (1970) / Louise Meriwether -- Excerpt from The cotillion, or, One good bull is half the herd (1971) / John Oliver Killens -- Crying for her man (1971) / Ann Allen Shockley -- Excerpt from Captain Blackman (1972) / John A. Williams -- Excerpt from A love so fine (1972) / William H. Banks, Jr. -- Excerpt from In the shadow of the peacock (1988) / Grace F. Edwards -- A Christmas story (1990) / Andrea Broadwater -- Excerpt from Voices of the self (1991) / Keith Gilyard -- Excerpt from Jazz (1992) / Toni Morrison -- Commentary (1997) / John Henrik Clarke -- Excerpt from Sowa's red beans and gravy (2002) / Diane Richards -- Excerpt from The queen of Harlem (2002) / Brian Keith Jackson -- Changes (2003) / Walter Dean Myers -- IV. New stories : new voices reflect, recount, and reinvent. Dreaming in Harlem (2002) / Rosemarie Robotham -- Excerpt from 8 times a week (2003) / Karen Robinson -- Pudd'nhead Barnes (2004) / Tracy Grant -- The commute (2004) / Carmen Scheidel -- Sudan Washington (2004) / Funmi Osaba -- Migdalia (2004) / Rachel De Aragon -- Physician of the mind and heart (2004) / Olubansile Abbas Mimiko -- My father's first bra (2004) / Ayesha Randolph.

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