Black California: A Literary Anthology

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Black California: A Literary Anthology

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"Black California: A Literary Anthology" . Ed. Aparajita Nanda. Santa Clara, CA: Santa Clara U, 2011. xxi+333 pp.

Table of contents

● Ula Y. Taylor / Foreward
● Preface
● Introduction

● Pío Pico / “Santa Barbara, June 29 of 1846”
● James Monroe Whitfield / Self-Reliance
● James Beckwourth / from “The life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians”
● James Madison Bell / Poem
● Alvin A. Coffey / from “Autobiography and Reminiscence of Alvin Aaron Coffey”
● Charles Alexander / My Kind of Man
● Mifflin Wistar Gibbs / from “Shadow and light”
● William Nauns Ricks / The Coming Night (From the Berkeley Hills)
● Eloise Bibb Thompson / A Garland of Prayer
● Wallace Thurman / from “The Blacker the Berry”
● Langston Hugh / Hollywood Mammy
● Chester Hime / from “If He Hollers Let Him Go”
● Chester Himes / Zoot Riots Are Race Riots
● Walter Mosley / from “Devil in a Blue Dress”
● Arna Bontemps / from “Anyplace but Here”
● Kamau Daáood / Jazz: L.A.'s Lost Street of Dreams
● Reginald Lockett / A Backyard Boogie of the Spirits
● Bob Kaufman / Abomunist Manifesto
● Eldridge Cleaver / Affidavit #2: Shoot-Out in Oakland
● Bob Kaufman / All Those Ships That Never Sailed
● Addison Gayle Jr. / Letter to a White Colleague
● David Henderson / California 13
● Brian Copeland / from “Not a Genuine Black Man”
● Conyus / The Great Santa Barbara Oil Disaster, Or: A Diary
● Quincy Troupe / Leaving Los Angeles
● Terry McMillan / The End
● James Alan McPherson / Problems of Art
● David Bradley / City of The Big Sleep
● Alice Walker / Writing The Color Purple
● Lucille Clifton / california lessons
● Ishmael Reed / Oakland Blues
● Al Young / California Peninsula: El Camino Real
● Stanley Crouch / Blues-Collar Clarity
● Wanda Coleman / L.A. Love Cry
● Sheneska Jackson / from “Caught Up in the Rapture”
● June Jordan / I Am Seeking an Attitude
● Paula Woods / from “Inner City Blues”
● Bebe Moore Campbell / from “Brothers and Sisters”
● devorah major / Welcome to Mexi-Cali
● April Sinclair / Straight Cutta Marin
● Jervey Tervalon / A Pootbutt's Scary Life in Outer Space L.A.
● Ernest Gaines / Christ Walked Down Market Street
● Clarence Major / Purple California Mountains

● Permissions
● Author Index
● About the Editor

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A0430

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