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To Make a Poet Black
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

To Make a Poet Black

This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past two generations. A major contribution to the history of Black thought in America, it ranges widely, beginning in the late eighteenth century with Jupiter Hammon, the first American Black writer, and ending in the 1930s with Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.

A Scholar's Conscience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

A Scholar's Conscience

J. Saunders Redding (19061988) was often and justifiably called "the dean of African American scholars." As professor and man of letters, he wrote about African American literature and culture in vivid and scholarly prose. And of all the writers of his generation, he best represented, and came closest to explaining, the hopes and conflicts of American democracy in a multiracial society. Yet his perceptions and writings were never limited to race, nationality, academia, or one literary genre. In this first published anthology drawn from Redding's books, essays, and speeches, Faith Berry has compiled representative selections from every period and genre in which Redding wrote: autobiography, f...

No Day of Triumph
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

No Day of Triumph

"The story of an alienated Northern professional's quest for redemptive immersion in Southern Black working-class communities"--Encyclopedia Britannica (online).

On Being Negro in America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 105

On Being Negro in America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-03-22
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  • Publisher: Unknown

As a highly personalized autobiography, On Being Negro in America is a revealing account of J. Saunders Redding's tourtured and never-ending search for personal dignity and self-realization in a society that brutalizes the racial oppressor as well as the racially oppressed."[J. Saunders Redding] has set down with restrained bitterness, great dignity and sensitive insight what it is to be a negro in the United States... eloquent, passionately written." - William L. Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Within the Circle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 548

Within the Circle

Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn Mitchell explains in her introduction the importance for those "within the circle" of African American literature to examine their own works and to engage this critical canon. The essays in this collection--many of which are not widely available today--either initiated or gave critical definition to ...

By These Hands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

By These Hands

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-09
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

This anthology focuses attention on the role of humanism in African American liberation struggles. The influence of humanist thought on prominent figures is emphasized, as is its impact on the Abolitionist, civil rights, and Black Power movements. Twenty-one chapters discuss history, culture, politics, personal accounts, and observations from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They include writings by Duchess Harris, Herbert Aptheker, Daniel Payne, Norm Allen, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Huey Newton. c. Book News Inc.

The Haverford Discussions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Haverford Discussions

In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's and Charles Hamilton's Black Power, and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. In 1969 a group of distinguished African American intellectuals met at Haverford College in order to devise strategies to dissuade young blacks from adopting a separatist political agenda. The participants included some of the most prominent figures of the civil rights era--Ralph Ellison, John Hope Franklin, and J. Saunders Redding, to name only a notable few. Although these discussions were recorded, transcribed, and edited, they were never p...

F.B. Eyes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

F.B. Eyes

How FBI surveillance influenced African American writing Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau’s intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem’s renaissance and Hoover’s career at the Bureau, secretive FBI "ghostreaders" monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover’s deat...

A Scholar's Conscience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

A Scholar's Conscience

J. Saunders Redding (19061988) was often and justifiably called "the dean of African American scholars." As professor and man of letters, he wrote about African American literature and culture in vivid and scholarly prose. And of all the writers of his generation, he best represented, and came closest to explaining, the hopes and conflicts of American democracy in a multiracial society. Yet his perceptions and writings were never limited to race, nationality, academia, or one literary genre. In this first published anthology drawn from Redding's books, essays, and speeches, Faith Berry has compiled representative selections from every period and genre in which Redding wrote: autobiography, f...

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.