Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?
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Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?
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"Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?" Ed. Richard Guzman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2006. xxiii+328 pp.
Table of contents
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / Foreword
● Acknowledgements
● Richard Guzman / Introduction
● J.W.M. (Colored) / The “Colored Question”
● John Jones / From “The Black Laws of Illinois, and a Few Reasons Why They Should Be Repealed
● W. Allison Sweeney / From “The Other Fellow’s Burden”
● James David Corrothers / At the Closed Gate of Justice
● James David Corrothers / From “The Black Cat Club”
● Lucy Parsons / From “On Anarchy”
● Ida B. Wells / From “The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the Columbian World Exposition”
● R.T. Sims / Big Dailies Worried by Recent Migration (from the Chicago Defender, March 24, 1917)
● Kelly Miller / The Plight of the Jewish Minority (from the Chicago Defender, January 14, 1939)
● W.E.B. DuBois / The American Negro Press by W.E.B. DuBois (from the Chicago Defender, February 20 and 27, 1943)
● Langston Hughes / Simple and the Heads (from the Chicago Defender, April 27, 1946)
● Fenton Johnson / Tired
● Fenton Johnson / Prelude
● Fenton Johnson / Questions
● Fenton Johnson / A Fragment
● Anon. / from Organized Students are Powerful (from “1927 Intercollegiate Wonder Book or, The Negro in Chicago (1779-1927)”)
● Anon. / Entering Chicago (from “1927 Intercollegiate Wonder Book or, The Negro in Chicago (1779-1927)”)
● Anon. / The New Negro (from “1927 Intercollegiate Wonder Book or, The Negro in Chicago (1779-1927)”)
● Rev. John L. Tilley / When Day Is Done
● Frank Marshall Davis / Four Glimpses of Night
● Frank Marshall Davis / Frank Marshall Davis: Writer
● Leonidas M. Berry / From “I Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ for My Journey
● Era Bell Thompson / From “American Daughter”
● Alice Browning / Old Mis’ Cane
● Richard Wright / From “I Tried to Be a Communist”
● Cyrus Colter / Overnight Trip
● William Attaway / From “Blood on the Forge”
● St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton / From “Black Metropolis”
● John Hope Franklin / From “Racial Equality in America”
● Margaret Danner / These Beasts and the Benin Bronze
● Margaret Danner / Beautiful? You Are the Most
● Richard Durham / From “Premonition of the Panther”
● Margaret T. Burroughs / For Eric Toller
● Gwendolyn Brooks / To Don at Salaam
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Walter Bradford
● Gwendolyn Brooks / From “Maud Martha”
● Dempsey J. Travis / From “I Refuse to Learn to Fail”
● Hoyt W. Fuller / From “A Journey to Africa”
● Herman Cromwell Gilbert / From “The Negotiation: A Novel of Tomorrow”
● Frank London Brown / McDougal
● Lerone Bennett Jr. / From “Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America”
● Lorraine Hansberry / From “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”
● Sam Greenlee / From “The Spook Who Sat by the Door”
● Ronald L. Fair / From “Hog Butcher”
● Useni Eugene Perkins / A Poem for Jazz Lovers and People Who Hate Wars
● Dick Gregory / From “Nigger!”
● Conrad Kent Rivers / Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France, 1933
● Conrad Kent Rivers / Underground
● Conrad Kent Rivers / A mourning letter from Paris
● Conrad Kent Rivers / In defense of black poets
● Johari Amini-Hudson / Black Expressions: circa chicago state (& othr state institutions)
● Johari Amini-Hudson / Untitled
● Clarence Major / Discovering Walt Whitman
● Clarence Major / Read the Signs
● Clarence Major / A Guy I Know on 47th and Cottage
● Clarence Major / The Syncopated Cakewalk
● Sterling Plumpp / From “Blues Narrative”
● Sterling Plumpp / From “Horn Man”
● Haki R. Madhubuti / From “Black Man: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?”
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / Prodigal Objects
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / Sheep
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / In the Shadow of Turning: Throwing Salt
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / Jazz: Mood Indigo
● Clarence Page / From “Showing My Color”
● Charles Johnson / The Education of Mingo
● Fred Hampton Sr. / From “You Can Murder a Liberator, but You Can’t Murder Liberation”
● Warren Foulks / #5 The Courts
● Michael Warr / Not Black Enough
● Michael Warr / Something’s Got to Go
● Angela Jackson / Journey to Africa
● Leanita McClain / The Middle-class Black’s Burden
● Leanita McClain / How Chicago Taught Me to Hate Whites
● Sandra Jackson-Opoku / From “Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him”
● Sandra Jackson-Opoku / Ancestors: In Praise of the Imperishable
● D.L. Crockett Smith / Cowboy Eating His Children
● Marvin Tate / Soulville Revisited
● Marvin Tate / The Ebony Mannequin in the Marshall Fields State Street Store Window
● Rohan Preston / This One
● Rohan Preston / Dreams in Soy Sauce
● Barack Obama / From “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”
● Elizabeth Alexander / The Josephine Baker Museum
● Elizabeth Alexander / Blues
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / hyphen
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / seventy-first & king drive
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / rogers park
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / fat-free
● Tyehimba Jess / Magic
● Tyehimba Jess / We Live
● Regie Gibson / prayer
● Regie Gibson / blooz man
● Angela Shannon / Doris
● Audrey Petty / Gettysburg
● Tara Betts / Two Brothers on 35th Street
● Tara Betts / A Mixed Message
● Ken Green / Debate
● Ken Green / One Man Parade
● Afterword
● Credits
● Acknowledgements
● Richard Guzman / Introduction
● J.W.M. (Colored) / The “Colored Question”
● John Jones / From “The Black Laws of Illinois, and a Few Reasons Why They Should Be Repealed
● W. Allison Sweeney / From “The Other Fellow’s Burden”
● James David Corrothers / At the Closed Gate of Justice
● James David Corrothers / From “The Black Cat Club”
● Lucy Parsons / From “On Anarchy”
● Ida B. Wells / From “The Reason Why the Colored American is Not in the Columbian World Exposition”
● R.T. Sims / Big Dailies Worried by Recent Migration (from the Chicago Defender, March 24, 1917)
● Kelly Miller / The Plight of the Jewish Minority (from the Chicago Defender, January 14, 1939)
● W.E.B. DuBois / The American Negro Press by W.E.B. DuBois (from the Chicago Defender, February 20 and 27, 1943)
● Langston Hughes / Simple and the Heads (from the Chicago Defender, April 27, 1946)
● Fenton Johnson / Tired
● Fenton Johnson / Prelude
● Fenton Johnson / Questions
● Fenton Johnson / A Fragment
● Anon. / from Organized Students are Powerful (from “1927 Intercollegiate Wonder Book or, The Negro in Chicago (1779-1927)”)
● Anon. / Entering Chicago (from “1927 Intercollegiate Wonder Book or, The Negro in Chicago (1779-1927)”)
● Anon. / The New Negro (from “1927 Intercollegiate Wonder Book or, The Negro in Chicago (1779-1927)”)
● Rev. John L. Tilley / When Day Is Done
● Frank Marshall Davis / Four Glimpses of Night
● Frank Marshall Davis / Frank Marshall Davis: Writer
● Leonidas M. Berry / From “I Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ for My Journey
● Era Bell Thompson / From “American Daughter”
● Alice Browning / Old Mis’ Cane
● Richard Wright / From “I Tried to Be a Communist”
● Cyrus Colter / Overnight Trip
● William Attaway / From “Blood on the Forge”
● St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton / From “Black Metropolis”
● John Hope Franklin / From “Racial Equality in America”
● Margaret Danner / These Beasts and the Benin Bronze
● Margaret Danner / Beautiful? You Are the Most
● Richard Durham / From “Premonition of the Panther”
● Margaret T. Burroughs / For Eric Toller
● Gwendolyn Brooks / To Don at Salaam
● Gwendolyn Brooks / Walter Bradford
● Gwendolyn Brooks / From “Maud Martha”
● Dempsey J. Travis / From “I Refuse to Learn to Fail”
● Hoyt W. Fuller / From “A Journey to Africa”
● Herman Cromwell Gilbert / From “The Negotiation: A Novel of Tomorrow”
● Frank London Brown / McDougal
● Lerone Bennett Jr. / From “Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America”
● Lorraine Hansberry / From “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”
● Sam Greenlee / From “The Spook Who Sat by the Door”
● Ronald L. Fair / From “Hog Butcher”
● Useni Eugene Perkins / A Poem for Jazz Lovers and People Who Hate Wars
● Dick Gregory / From “Nigger!”
● Conrad Kent Rivers / Four Sheets to the Wind and a One-Way Ticket to France, 1933
● Conrad Kent Rivers / Underground
● Conrad Kent Rivers / A mourning letter from Paris
● Conrad Kent Rivers / In defense of black poets
● Johari Amini-Hudson / Black Expressions: circa chicago state (& othr state institutions)
● Johari Amini-Hudson / Untitled
● Clarence Major / Discovering Walt Whitman
● Clarence Major / Read the Signs
● Clarence Major / A Guy I Know on 47th and Cottage
● Clarence Major / The Syncopated Cakewalk
● Sterling Plumpp / From “Blues Narrative”
● Sterling Plumpp / From “Horn Man”
● Haki R. Madhubuti / From “Black Man: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?”
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / Prodigal Objects
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / Sheep
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / In the Shadow of Turning: Throwing Salt
● Carolyn M. Rodgers / Jazz: Mood Indigo
● Clarence Page / From “Showing My Color”
● Charles Johnson / The Education of Mingo
● Fred Hampton Sr. / From “You Can Murder a Liberator, but You Can’t Murder Liberation”
● Warren Foulks / #5 The Courts
● Michael Warr / Not Black Enough
● Michael Warr / Something’s Got to Go
● Angela Jackson / Journey to Africa
● Leanita McClain / The Middle-class Black’s Burden
● Leanita McClain / How Chicago Taught Me to Hate Whites
● Sandra Jackson-Opoku / From “Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him”
● Sandra Jackson-Opoku / Ancestors: In Praise of the Imperishable
● D.L. Crockett Smith / Cowboy Eating His Children
● Marvin Tate / Soulville Revisited
● Marvin Tate / The Ebony Mannequin in the Marshall Fields State Street Store Window
● Rohan Preston / This One
● Rohan Preston / Dreams in Soy Sauce
● Barack Obama / From “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”
● Elizabeth Alexander / The Josephine Baker Museum
● Elizabeth Alexander / Blues
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / hyphen
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / seventy-first & king drive
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / rogers park
● Quarysh Ali Lansana / fat-free
● Tyehimba Jess / Magic
● Tyehimba Jess / We Live
● Regie Gibson / prayer
● Regie Gibson / blooz man
● Angela Shannon / Doris
● Audrey Petty / Gettysburg
● Tara Betts / Two Brothers on 35th Street
● Tara Betts / A Mixed Message
● Ken Green / Debate
● Ken Green / One Man Parade
● Afterword
● Credits
Item Number
A0398