| Preface |
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xxi | |
| Acknowledgments |
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xxix | |
| Introduction: Talking Books |
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xxxiii | |
| The Vernacular Tradition, Part 2* |
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3 | (8) |
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11 | (6) |
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This Little Light of Mine |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (1) |
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Take My Hand, Precious Lord |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (5) |
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17 | (1) |
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Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round |
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18 | (1) |
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Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit |
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19 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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Langston Hughes: The Backlash Blues |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (5) |
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Duke Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) |
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24 | (1) |
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Andy Razaf: (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue |
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25 | (1) |
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King Pleasure: Parker's Mood |
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26 | (1) |
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27 | (8) |
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Smokey Robinson et al.: The Tracks of My Tears |
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30 | (1) |
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Marvin Gaye et al.: Dancing in the Street |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On? |
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33 | (1) |
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Stevie Wonder: Living for the City |
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33 | (1) |
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Curtis Mayfield: We're a Winner |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (21) |
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Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
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38 | (2) |
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: The Message |
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40 | (3) |
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Public Enemy: Don't Believe the Hype |
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43 | (2) |
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Queen Latifah: The Evil That Men Do |
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45 | (2) |
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Eric B. & Rakim: I Ain't No Joke |
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47 | (1) |
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Biggie Smalls (The Notorious B.I.G.): Things Done Changed |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (2) |
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51 | (2) |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (37) |
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58 | (1) |
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James Weldon Johnson: Listen Lord, a Prayer |
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59 | (2) |
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C.L. Franklin: The Eagle Stirreth Her Nest |
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61 | (6) |
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Howard Thurman: O God, I Need Thee |
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67 | (1) |
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G.I. Townsel: The Way Out Is to Pray Out |
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68 | (1) |
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69 | (10) |
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69 | (3) |
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I've Been to the Mountaintop |
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72 | (7) |
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Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet |
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79 | (11) |
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Bert Williams: Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity |
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90 | (3) |
| Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, 1940-1960* |
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93 | (14) |
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Melvin B. Tolson (1898?-1966) |
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107 | (7) |
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109 | (3) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (1) |
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114 | (5) |
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115 | (4) |
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115 | (26) |
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115 | (4) |
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Richard Wright (1908-1960) |
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119 | (37) |
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Blueprint for Negro Writing |
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125 | (7) |
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The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an Autobiographical Sketch |
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132 | (9) |
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141 | (15) |
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141 | (6) |
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147 | (9) |
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Chester B. Himes (1909-1984) |
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156 | (11) |
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157 | (10) |
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167 | (13) |
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168 | (12) |
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Chapter I [ The Apartment] |
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168 | (12) |
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Alice Childress (1912?-1994) |
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180 | (45) |
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182 | (43) |
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Robert Hayden (1913-1980) |
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225 | (18) |
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227 | (2) |
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Homage to the Empress of the Blues |
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229 | (1) |
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229 | (5) |
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234 | (1) |
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O Daedalus, Fly Away Home |
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234 | (1) |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (1) |
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237 | (2) |
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Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday |
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239 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (2) |
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A Letter from Phillis Wheatley |
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242 | (1) |
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Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) |
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243 | (75) |
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247 | (11) |
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258 | (21) |
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258 | (6) |
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Chapter 1 [ Battle Royal] |
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264 | (10) |
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274 | (5) |
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Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke |
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279 | (8) |
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287 | (20) |
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Remembering Richard Wright |
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307 | (11) |
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Margaret Walker (1915-1998) |
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318 | (6) |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (2) |
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322 | (1) |
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322 | (2) |
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) |
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324 | (66) |
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326 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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The preacher: ruminates behind the sermon |
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328 | (1) |
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The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith |
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329 | (3) |
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332 | (1) |
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333 | (2) |
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335 | (2) |
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337 | (1) |
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The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock |
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337 | (2) |
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339 | (1) |
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339 | (1) |
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A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon |
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340 | (4) |
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344 | (46) |
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) |
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390 | (75) |
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Everybody's Protest Novel |
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394 | (6) |
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400 | (13) |
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413 | (22) |
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435 | (18) |
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453 | (12) |
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465 | (5) |
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466 | (4) |
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Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) |
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470 | (63) |
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473 | (60) |
| The Black Arts Era, 1960-1975* |
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533 | (29) |
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562 | (3) |
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562 | (3) |
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Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) (1925-1965) |
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565 | (23) |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
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566 | (22) |
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566 | (3) |
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569 | (2) |
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From
Chapter Six. Detroit Red |
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571 | (2) |
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573 | (8) |
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From
Chapter Nineteen. 1965 |
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581 | (7) |
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John Alfred Williams (b. 1925) |
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588 | (4) |
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588 | (4) |
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3 [ Picture of the Writer] |
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588 | (4) |
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
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592 | (15) |
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Letter from Birmingham Jail |
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594 | (13) |
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Raymond Patterson (1929-2001) |
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607 | (5) |
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Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Blackman |
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608 | (4) |
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Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) |
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612 | (5) |
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614 | (1) |
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Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane |
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615 | (1) |
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616 | (1) |
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Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) |
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617 | (14) |
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620 | (11) |
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Calvin Hernton (1932-2001) |
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631 | (6) |
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Jitterbugging in the Streets |
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632 | (5) |
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637 | (15) |
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639 | (2) |
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641 | (1) |
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642 | (1) |
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643 | (3) |
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646 | (1) |
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647 | (1) |
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name |
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648 | (1) |
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648 | (1) |
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649 | (3) |
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652 | (8) |
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654 | (1) |
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken? |
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655 | (4) |
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The Zebra Goes Wild Where the Sidewalk Ends |
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659 | (1) |
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660 | (48) |
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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note |
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665 | (1) |
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666 | (1) |
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667 | (4) |
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671 | (3) |
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674 | (14) |
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The Revolutionary Theatre |
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688 | (3) |
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691 | (2) |
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693 | (1) |
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693 | (1) |
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694 | (9) |
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703 | (1) |
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704 | (2) |
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706 | (2) |
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708 | (17) |
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711 | (1) |
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711 | (1) |
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Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict |
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712 | (1) |
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713 | (1) |
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714 | (5) |
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719 | (3) |
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722 | (1) |
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723 | (2) |
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725 | (14) |
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726 | (13) |
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Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998) |
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739 | (10) |
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740 | (9) |
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740 | (9) |
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749 | (2) |
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Did John's Music Kill Him? |
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750 | (1) |
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751 | (18) |
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In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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753 | (1) |
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754 | (8) |
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From The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # One |
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762 | (2) |
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Poem about Police Violence |
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764 | (1) |
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Poem for South African Women |
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765 | (1) |
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766 | (3) |
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769 | (4) |
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How Long Has Trane Been Gone |
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771 | (2) |
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773 | (25) |
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Harlem Gallery: From the Inside |
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776 | (1) |
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Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat |
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777 | (4) |
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Malcolm XAn Autobiography |
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781 | (3) |
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From The Black Arts Movement |
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784 | (3) |
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Some Reflections on the Black Aesthetic |
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787 | (4) |
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Uncle Rufus Raps on the Squared Circle |
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791 | (7) |
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798 | (31) |
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801 | (3) |
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I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra |
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804 | (2) |
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Beware: Do Not Read This Poem |
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806 | (2) |
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808 | (6) |
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814 | (15) |
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814 | (4) |
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818 | (1) |
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818 | (11) |
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Michael S. Harper (b. 1938) |
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829 | (12) |
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831 | (2) |
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833 | (1) |
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834 | (2) |
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836 | (5) |
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Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) |
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841 | (9) |
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842 | (5) |
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847 | (3) |
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Carolyn M. Rodgers (1940-2010) |
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850 | (8) |
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For Sistuhs Wearin' Straight Hair |
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852 | (1) |
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852 | (1) |
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Poem for Some Black Women |
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853 | (2) |
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855 | (1) |
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855 | (3) |
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Haki R. Madhubuti (b. 1942) |
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858 | (15) |
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Introduction [ to Think Black] |
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860 | (1) |
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861 | (1) |
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862 | (1) |
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863 | (3) |
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Move Un-noticed to Be Noticed: A Nationhood Poem |
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866 | (3) |
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869 | (4) |
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David Henderson (b. 1942) |
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873 | (6) |
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874 | (5) |
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879 | (8) |
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880 | (1) |
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881 | (1) |
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882 | (1) |
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882 | (2) |
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884 | (1) |
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Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) |
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885 | (2) |
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James Alan Mcpherson (b. 1943) |
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887 | (12) |
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887 | (12) |
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899 | (6) |
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Poem to the Hip Generation |
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900 | (5) |
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James T. Stewart (?-1996) |
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905 | (8) |
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The Development of the Black Revolutionary Artist |
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906 | (7) |
| The Contemporary Period |
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913 | (16) |
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Albert Murray (1916-2013) |
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929 | (15) |
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931 | (13) |
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931 | (13) |
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944 | (13) |
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946 | (1) |
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947 | (1) |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
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948 | (9) |
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Chapter 15 [ Mrs. Flowers] |
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948 | (5) |
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953 | (4) |
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957 | (28) |
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959 | (12) |
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971 | (7) |
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The Making of a Writer: From the Poets in the Kitchen |
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978 | (7) |
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985 | (116) |
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989 | (78) |
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Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation |
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1067 | (4) |
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1071 | (7) |
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Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature |
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1078 | (23) |
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Ernest J. Gaines (b. 1933) |
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1101 | (21) |
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1103 | (19) |
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Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) |
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1122 | (7) |
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1125 | (1) |
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1126 | (1) |
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1127 | (1) |
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1127 | (1) |
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1127 | (1) |
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[ the light that came to Lucille clifton] |
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1128 | (1) |
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1128 | (1) |
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1128 | (1) |
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John Edgar Wideman (b. 1941) |
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1129 | (16) |
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1132 | (7) |
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1132 | (7) |
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1139 | (6) |
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Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) |
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1145 | (18) |
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From Atlantis: Model 1924 |
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1146 | (17) |
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Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999) |
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1163 | (13) |
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1165 | (1) |
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I Want Aretha to Set This to Music |
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1165 | (2) |
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1167 | (9) |
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1176 | (29) |
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1179 | (1) |
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1179 | (1) |
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"Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning" |
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1180 | (1) |
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
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1180 | (8) |
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1188 | (6) |
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Advancing Lunaand Ida B. Wells |
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1194 | (11) |
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August Wilson (1945-2005) |
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1205 | (46) |
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone |
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1208 | (43) |
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Octavia Butler (1947-2006) |
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1251 | (15) |
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1253 | (13) |
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Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) |
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1266 | (5) |
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1267 | (1) |
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1268 | (1) |
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1268 | (1) |
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1269 | (1) |
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1270 | (1) |
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Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) |
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1271 | (8) |
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1272 | (1) |
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Song of the Andoumboulou: 8 |
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1273 | (1) |
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1274 | (5) |
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1274 | (5) |
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Charles Johnson (b. 1948) |
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1279 | (11) |
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1281 | (9) |
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1290 | (7) |
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From for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf |
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1292 | (1) |
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1293 | (2) |
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Bocas: A Daughter's Geography |
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1295 | (2) |
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1297 | (7) |
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1298 | (6) |
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Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) |
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1304 | (10) |
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1305 | (9) |
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Chapter Two. The Circling Hand |
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1305 | (9) |
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1314 | (27) |
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The Women of Brewster Place |
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1315 | (1) |
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1315 | (26) |
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Edward P. Jones (b. 1951) |
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1341 | (15) |
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The Girl Who Raised Pigeons |
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1342 | (14) |
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1356 | (13) |
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1359 | (1) |
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1360 | (2) |
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1362 | (1) |
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1362 | (1) |
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1362 | (1) |
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1363 | (1) |
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1364 | (1) |
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1364 | (2) |
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1366 | (1) |
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1366 | (1) |
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The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe |
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1367 | (1) |
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Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove |
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1368 | (1) |
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1369 | (12) |
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1371 | (10) |
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Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) |
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1381 | (10) |
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1382 | (9) |
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[ Sapphire's lyre styles] |
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1382 | (1) |
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[ country clothes hung on her all and sundry] |
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1383 | (1) |
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1383 | (1) |
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[ why these blues come from us] |
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1384 | (1) |
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[ go on sister sing your song] |
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1384 | (1) |
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[ tomboy girl with cowboy boots] |
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1385 | (1) |
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[ sauce squandering sassy cook] |
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1385 | (1) |
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[ marry at a hotel, annul 'em] |
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1386 | (1) |
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[ precious cargo up crooked alleys] |
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1387 | (1) |
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[ with all that rope they gave us] |
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1387 | (1) |
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[ the royal yellow sovereign] |
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1388 | (1) |
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1388 | (1) |
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1389 | (1) |
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[ cough drops prick thick] |
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1389 | (1) |
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1390 | (1) |
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1390 | (1) |
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[ moon, whoever knew you] |
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1391 | (1) |
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Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) |
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1391 | (4) |
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1392 | (3) |
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1392 | (2) |
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1394 | (1) |
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1394 | (1) |
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1395 | (14) |
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1396 | (13) |
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1396 | (13) |
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1409 | (10) |
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1411 | (8) |
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Elizabeth Alexander (b. 1962) |
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1419 | (5) |
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1420 | (3) |
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1423 | (1) |
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Ars Poetica #100: I Believe |
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1423 | (1) |
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Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) |
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1424 | (44) |
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1426 | (42) |
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Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) |
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1468 | (7) |
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1470 | (5) |
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1471 | (1) |
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1472 | (1) |
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1472 | (1) |
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1473 | (1) |
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1473 | (2) |
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Edwidge Danticat (B. 1969) |
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1475 | (15) |
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1476 | (14) |
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1476 | (7) |
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1483 | (7) |
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Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) |
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1490 | (17) |
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1491 | (16) |
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1491 | (3) |
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1494 | (5) |
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1499 | (8) |
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1507 | (4) |
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1508 | (1) |
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1509 | (1) |
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1509 | (1) |
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1510 | (1) |
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1511 | (16) |
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1511 | (1) |
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My God, It's Full of Stars |
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1512 | (5) |
| Timeline |
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1517 | (10) |
| Selected Bibliographies |
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1527 | (36) |
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1527 | (8) |
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1535 | (1) |
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Realism, Naturalism, Modernism |
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1536 | (4) |
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1540 | (11) |
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1551 | (12) |
| Permissions Acknowledgments |
|
1563 | (6) |
| Index |
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