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From the Dark Tower
A long-awaited overview of significant black writers and their works from the beginning of this century to 1960. Each of the major periods of black literature - 1900 through the fifties - are preceded by extensive introductions that place the writers in literary, historical and political perspective.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: K-Y
An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultural milieu in which the Renaissance existed; on important events and places.
Interracialism
Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity. Ranging from Hannah Arendt to George Schuyler and from Pace v. Alabama to Loving v. Virginia, it provides extraordinary resources for faculty and students in English, American and Ethnic Studies as well as for general readers interested in race relations. By bringing together a selection of historically significant documents and of the best essays and scholarship on the subject of "miscegenation," Interracialism demonstrates that notions of race can be fruitfully approached from the vantage point of the denial of interracialism that typically informs racial ideologies.
The New Cavalcade
Selected stories, poems, and plays trace the development of black American literature since colonial times
On Gwendolyn Brooks
A reassessment of the art and achievements of the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize
Annual Report
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Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to publish a book. Born in Gambia in 1753, she came to America aboard a slave ship, the Phillis. From an early age, Wheatley exhibited a profound gift for verse, publishing her first poem in 1767. Her tribute to a famed pastor, “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,” followed in 1770, catapulting her into the international spotlight, and publication of her 1773 Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral in London created her an international star. Despite the attention she received at the time, history has not been kind to Wheatley. Her work has long been neglected or denigrated by literary critics and historians. John C. Shiel...
Dark Symphony
Ninety-one selections from major Negro writings of the 19th and 20th centuries prefaced by an introduction to each author.
