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Speech & power : the African-American essay and its cultural content, from polemics to pulpit
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Vol. 1 contents: --\Introduction: Gnostic or Gnomic? / Gerald Early --\Pt. I. On Being Black --\On Being Black / W. E. B. Du Bois --\On Being Black / Eric D. Walrond --\Black Pride / Kimbal (Stroud) Goffman --\On Being Black: The Burden of Race and Class / Manning Marable --\Being Black and Feeling Blue: Black Hesitation on the Brink / Shelby Steele --\Pt. II. Harlem, USA --\Hubert H. Harrison: Philosopher of Harlem / William Pickens --\The New Politics for the New Negro and A Negro for President / Hubert H. Harrison --\The New Negro Faces America and The Black City / Eric D. Walrond --\The Black and Tan Cabaret--America's Most Democratic Institution and Bobbed Hair / Chandler Owen --\The Making of Harlem / James Weldon Johnson --\Negro Life in New York's Harlem / Wallace Thurman --\Down Under in Harlem / Langston Hughes --\The Harlem Renaissance / Arna Bontemps --\The Harlem Ghetto / James Baldwin --\Pt. III. On Being Subversive --\Why I Am a Communist / Benjamin J. Davis, Jr. --\My Adventures as a Social Poet / Langston Hughes --\The Negro and the Communists / Walter White --\Pt. IV. The Numbers Runner --\The Numbers Writer: A Portrait / Julian Mayfield --\The Poor Pay More, Even for Their Dreams / Etheridge Knight --\Pt. V. Boxing --\High Tide in Harlem: Joe Louis as a Symbol of Freedom / Richard Wright --\A Study of the Black Fighter / Nathan Hare --\In Defense of Cassius Clay / Floyd Patterson --\Black Heavies / Jervis Anderson --\Uncle Rufus Raps on the Squared Circle / Larry Neal --\The Black Intellectual and the Sport of Prizefighting / Gerald Early --\Bitter Sweet Twilight for Sugar / Ralph Wiley --\Pt. VI. Portraits, Volume 1 --\Paul Laurence Dunbar and Susan B. Anthony, the Abolitionist / Mary Church Terrell --\Henry Ossawa Tanner / Jessie Redmon Fauset --\Madam C. J. Walker: Pioneer Big Business Woman of America / George S. Schuyler --\Pt. VII. Portraits, Volume 2 --\Boy Meets King (Louis Armstrong) / Rex Stewart --\"Jelly Roll" Morton (1885?-1941): Portrait of a Jazz Giant / Sterling A. Brown --\The Charlie Christian Story / Ralph Ellison --\Restoring the Perspective: Robert Hayden's "The Dream" / Gayl Jones --\Pt. VIII. Portraits, Volume 3 --\Ethel Waters / William Gardner Smith --\Richard Wright's Complexes and Black Writing Today / Cecil Brown --\Songs of a Racial Self: On Sterling A. Brown / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --\Trickster Tales / Darryl Pinckney --\Novelist Alice Walker: Telling the Black Woman's Story / David Bradley --\Pt. IX. Portraits, Volume 4 --\A. Philip Randolph / Bayard Rustin --\Cicely Tyson: Reflections on a Lone Black Rose / Maya Angelou --\Glamour Boy / Roi Ottley --\Acknowledgments --
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Vol. 2 contents:
\Introduction: Dispersion, Dilation, Delation / Gerald Early
\Part I: The Arts, Blacks in the Arts, The Black American Artist and His Audience
\The comic side of trouble / Bert Williams
\The negro artist and modern art / Romare Bearden
\City plowman / Jean Toomer
\'Gone With the Wind' is more dangerous than 'Birth of a Nation' / Melvin B. Tolson
\Art and life / N. Elizabeth Prophet
\Where are the films about real black men and women? / Ellen Holly
\Billie Holiday's 'Strange Fruit': Musical and social consciousness / Angela Y. Davis
\Who says black folks could sing and dance? Dance black America, Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 21-24, 1983 / Ntozake Shange
\What 'Jazz' means to me / Max Roach
\The ethos of the Blues / Larry Neal
\On Afro-American popular music: From bebop to rap / Cornel West
\The American negro's new comedy act / Louis E. Lomax
\Part II: The Black Writer
\The negro-art hokum / George S. Schuyler
\The negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes
\The dilemma of the negro author / James Weldon Johnson
\Negro poets and their poetry and Negro artists and the negro / Wallace Thurman
\Our literary audience / Sterling A. Brown
\The negro writer: Pitfalls and compensations / William Gardner Smith
\The negro writer and his roots: Toward a new Romanticism / Lorraine Hansberry
\Cultural strangulation: Black literature and the white aesthetic / Addison Gayle, Jr.
\Necessary distance: Afterthoughts on becoming a writer / Clarence Major
\On becoming an American writer / James Alan McPherson
\Philosophy and black fiction / Charles Johnson
\Black Critic / Haki R. Madhubuti
\Part III: Cultural and Political Essays
\The dark races of the twentieth century / Pauline E. Hopkins
\Self-determining Haiti / James Weldon Johnson
\The Virgin Islands and Senator Willis (Ohio) and the Virgin Islands, and Congress and the Virgin Islands / Casper Holstein
\Woman's most serious problem and The negro woman and the ballot / Alice Dunbar-Nelson
\Nordic education and the negro: A curse or a boon? (A personal reflection) / E. Frederick Morrow
\The mind of the American negro / E. Franklin Frazier
\The ebony flute / Gwendolyn Bennett
\The dark tower / Countee Cullen
\Once more the Germans face black troops / Claude McKay
\A reply to my critics / A. Philip Randolph
\Our white folks / George S. Schuyler
\Negroes without self-pity and The rise of the begging joints / Zora Neale Hurston
\Negro martyrs are needed / Chester B. Himes
\The black youth movement / J. Saunders Redding
\Challenge to negro leadership: The case of Robert Williams / Julian Mayfield
\The August 28th march on Washington: The castrated giant / Michael Thelwell
\Identity, diversity, and the mainstream / Albert Murray
\Inside these walls / Etheridge Knight
\Inside the sit-ins and freedom rides: Testimony of a southern student / Diane Nash
\"What Their Cry Means to Me": A negro's own evaluation / Gordon Parks
\Beauty is just care . . . Like ugly is carelessness / Toni Cade Bambara
\The redevelopment of the dead black mind: The building of black extended family institutions / Haki R. Madhubuti
\Willie Horton and me / Anthony Walton
\Part IV: Africa and the American Black
\Impressions of the second Pan-African Congress / Jessie Redmon Fauset
\Africa and the American negro intelligentsia / W. E. B. Du Bois
\Tradition and industrialization: The historic meaning of the plight of the tragic elite in Asia and Africa / Richard Wright
\Sekou Toure: A new kind of leader / Hoyt Fuller
\Part V: Washington's Colored Aristocracy
\Negro life in Washington and Negro society in Washington / Paul Laurence Dunbar
\Our wonderful society: Washington / Langston Hughes
\I, too, have lived in Washington / Brenda Ray Moryck
\Part VI: Autobiography
\I / Brenda Ray Moryck
\So the girl marries / W. E. B. Du Bois
\Georgia sketches / Sterling A. Brown
\How I told my child about race / Gwendolyn Brooks
\How I told my child about race / Margaret Walker
\Turning the beat around: Lesbian parenting 1986 / Audrey Lorde
\The Ivy League negro / William Melvin Kelly
\Don't have a baby till you read this / Nikki Giovanni
\Bob's house . . . An oasis of civility / William Demby
\A death in the family / Kenneth A. McClane
\Body and soul / Stanley Crouch
\Looking for Mr. Right / Terry McMillan.
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