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Volume 1 Beginnings Through the Harlem Renaissance |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: Talking Books |
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The Vernacular Tradition, Part 1 |
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3 | (7) |
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10 | (10) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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14 | (1) |
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Been in the Storm So Long |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? |
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17 | (1) |
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God's a-Gonna Trouble the Water |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (132) |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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Jack and Dinah Want Freedom |
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23 | (1) |
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24 | (124) |
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To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works |
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148 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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To His Excellency General Washington |
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149 | (3) |
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152 | (19) |
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152 | (7) |
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David Walker (1785--1830) |
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159 | (2) |
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David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World |
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161 | (1) |
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161 | (3) |
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Article I. Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery |
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164 | (7) |
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George Moses Horton (1797?--1883?) |
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171 | (5) |
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172 | (1) |
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On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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George Moses Horton, Myself |
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175 | (1) |
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Sojourner Truth (ca. 1799--1883) |
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176 | (5) |
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178 | (1) |
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From The Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 21, 1851 |
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178 | (1) |
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From The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1878 |
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178 | (3) |
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Maria W. Stewart (1803--1879) |
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181 | (5) |
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Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (1) |
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Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832 |
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183 | (3) |
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Solomon Northup (1807--?) |
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186 | (12) |
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From Twelve Years a Slave |
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190 | (8) |
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Martin R. Delany (1812--1885) |
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198 | (23) |
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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States |
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201 | (20) |
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Chapter I Condition of Many Classes in Europe Considered |
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201 | (1) |
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Chapter II Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States |
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202 | (7) |
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Chapter V Means of Elevation |
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209 | (4) |
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Chapter XXIII Things as They Are |
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213 | (3) |
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Chapter XXIV A Glance at Ourselves---Conclusion |
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216 | (5) |
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Harriet Jacobs (ca. 1813--1897) |
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221 | (40) |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
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224 | (37) |
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224 | (1) |
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224 | (3) |
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II The New Master and Mistress |
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227 | (3) |
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230 | (3) |
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X A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl's Life |
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233 | (3) |
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236 | (3) |
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239 | (2) |
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241 | (2) |
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XXI The Loophole of Retreat |
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243 | (3) |
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XXIX Preparations for Escape |
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246 | (5) |
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251 | (2) |
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XL The Fugitive Slave Law |
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253 | (3) |
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256 | (5) |
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William Wells Brown (1814?-1884) |
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261 | (29) |
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Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave |
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263 | (7) |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (6) |
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Clotel; or, The President's Daughter |
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270 | (20) |
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270 | (5) |
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Chapter II Going to the South |
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275 | (4) |
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Chapter IV The Quadroon's Home |
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279 | (2) |
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Chapter XV To-Day a Mistress, To-Morrow a Slave |
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281 | (2) |
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Chapter XIX Escape of Clotel |
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283 | (7) |
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Henry Highland Garnet (1815--1882) |
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290 | (6) |
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An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America |
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291 | (5) |
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Victor Sejour (1817--1874) |
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296 | (13) |
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298 | (11) |
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Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1818--1907) |
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309 | (17) |
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Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House |
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310 | (16) |
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Chapter I Where I Was Born |
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310 | (4) |
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Chapter II Girlhood and Its Sorrows |
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314 | (3) |
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Chapter III How I Gained My Freedom |
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317 | (6) |
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Chapter IV In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis |
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323 | (3) |
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Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) |
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326 | (96) |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself |
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330 | (63) |
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My Bondage and My Freedom |
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393 | (9) |
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Chapter XXIII Introduced to the Abolitionists |
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393 | (3) |
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Chapter XXIV Twenty-One Months in Great Britain |
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396 | (6) |
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From What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 |
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402 | (11) |
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass |
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413 | (9) |
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Second Part from
Chapter XV. Weighed in the Balance |
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413 | (6) |
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Third Part
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1. Later Life |
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419 | (3) |
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James M. Whitfield (1822--1871) |
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422 | (7) |
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423 | (4) |
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427 | (2) |
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William Craft (1824--1900) and Ellen Craft (1826--1891) |
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429 | (16) |
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From Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom |
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431 | (14) |
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Frances E. W. Harper (ca. 1825--1911) |
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445 | (27) |
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448 | (1) |
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449 | (1) |
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450 | (1) |
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451 | (2) |
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453 | (1) |
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454 | (1) |
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455 | (1) |
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456 | (1) |
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457 | (1) |
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An Appeal to My Country Women |
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458 | (2) |
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460 | (6) |
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466 | (2) |
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468 | (2) |
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[ Enthusiasm and Lofty Aspirations] |
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468 | (2) |
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470 | (2) |
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Harriet E. Wilson (1825--1900) |
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472 | (20) |
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Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North |
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474 | (18) |
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474 | (1) |
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Chapter I Mag Smith, My Mother |
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474 | (3) |
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Chapter II My Father's Death |
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477 | (3) |
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Chapter III A New Home for Me |
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480 | (5) |
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From
Chapter VIII. Visitor and Departure |
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485 | (2) |
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Chapter X Perplexities.---Another Death |
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487 | (3) |
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Chapter XII The Winding Up of the Matter |
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490 | (2) |
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Hannah Crafts (Hannah Bond) (1826--?) |
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492 | (13) |
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The Bondswoman's Narrative |
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494 | (11) |
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From
Chapter 1 [ In Childhood] |
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494 | (1) |
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From
Chapter 12 [ A New Mistress] |
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495 | (3) |
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From
Chapter 13 [ The Beautifying Powder] |
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498 | (4) |
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From
Chapter 21 [ In Freedom] |
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502 | (3) |
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Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance, 1865--1919 |
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505 | (15) |
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Nicholas Said (ca. 1833--1882) |
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520 | (14) |
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522 | (12) |
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Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837--1914) |
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534 | (14) |
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535 | (1) |
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536 | (12) |
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536 | (5) |
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541 | (7) |
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Booker T. Washington (1856--1915) |
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548 | (32) |
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550 | (30) |
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Chapter I A Slave among Slaves |
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550 | (7) |
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557 | (7) |
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Chapter III The Struggle for an Education |
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564 | (8) |
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Chapter XIV The Atlanta Exposition Address |
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572 | (8) |
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Charles W. Chesnutt (1858--1932) |
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580 | (38) |
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582 | (9) |
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591 | (11) |
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602 | (8) |
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610 | (8) |
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Anna Julia Cooper (1858?--1964) |
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618 | (15) |
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Womanhood a Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race |
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619 | (14) |
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Pauline E. Hopkins (1859--1930) |
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633 | (36) |
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635 | (10) |
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Bro'r Abr'm Jimson's Wedding |
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645 | (11) |
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Famous Men of the Negro Race |
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656 | (6) |
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656 | (6) |
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Famous Women of the Negro Race |
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662 | (5) |
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V. Literary Workers (Concluded) |
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662 | (5) |
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Letter from Cordelia A. Condict and Pauline Hopkins's Reply (March 1903) |
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667 | (2) |
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862--1931) |
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669 | (10) |
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670 | (9) |
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Chapter I The Case Stated |
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670 | (6) |
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676 | (3) |
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W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963) |
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679 | (99) |
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684 | (2) |
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686 | (1) |
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687 | (73) |
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687 | (1) |
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I Of Our Spiritual Strivings |
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688 | (6) |
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III Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others |
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694 | (9) |
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IV Of the Meaning of Progress |
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703 | (6) |
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V Of the Wings of Atalanta |
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709 | (6) |
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VI Of the Training of Black Men |
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715 | (10) |
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X Of the Faith of the Fathers |
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725 | (8) |
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XI Of the Passing of the First-Born |
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733 | (4) |
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XII Of Alexander Crummell |
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737 | (5) |
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XIII Of the Coming of John |
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742 | (10) |
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752 | (8) |
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760 | (1) |
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760 | (11) |
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771 | (7) |
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James D. Corrothers (1869--1917) |
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778 | (2) |
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779 | (1) |
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780 | (1) |
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James Weldon Johnson (1871--1938) |
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780 | (114) |
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783 | (1) |
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Lift Every Voice and Sing |
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783 | (1) |
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O Black and Unknown Bards |
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784 | (1) |
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785 | (3) |
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788 | (2) |
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790 | (2) |
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792 | (1) |
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man |
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792 | (79) |
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The Book of American Negro Poetry Preface |
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871 | (23) |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906) |
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894 | (23) |
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896 | (1) |
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897 | (1) |
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898 | (1) |
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898 | (2) |
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900 | (2) |
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Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes |
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902 | (2) |
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904 | (1) |
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904 | (2) |
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906 | (1) |
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906 | (1) |
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907 | (1) |
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907 | (3) |
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910 | (1) |
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910 | (1) |
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911 | (2) |
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913 | (1) |
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913 | (1) |
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Black Samson of Brandywine |
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914 | (1) |
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915 | (1) |
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The Fourth of July and Race Outrages |
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915 | (2) |
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Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875--1935) |
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917 | (5) |
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918 | (1) |
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918 | (1) |
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919 | (1) |
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920 | (2) |
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William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) |
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922 | (3) |
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922 | (1) |
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The House of Falling Leaves |
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923 | (1) |
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924 | (1) |
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Fenton Johnson (1888--1958) |
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925 | (4) |
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925 | (1) |
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926 | (3) |
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Harlem Renaissance, 1919--1940 |
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929 | (15) |
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Arthur A. Schomburg (1874--1938) |
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944 | (6) |
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The Negro Digs Up His Past |
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945 | (5) |
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Angelina Weld Grimke (1880--1958) |
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950 | (3) |
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951 | (1) |
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951 | (1) |
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When the Green Lies over the Earth |
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951 | (1) |
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952 | (1) |
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Anne Spencer (1882--1975) |
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953 | (3) |
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Before the Feast of Shushan |
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954 | (1) |
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955 | (1) |
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Hubert Harrison (1883--1927) |
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956 | (6) |
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The East St. Louis Horror |
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958 | (1) |
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959 | (3) |
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Jessie Redmon Fauset (ca. 1884--1961) |
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962 | (5) |
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Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral |
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963 | (4) |
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963 | (1) |
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Chapter I [ Black Philadelphia] |
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963 | (4) |
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967 | (15) |
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968 | (5) |
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973 | (9) |
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Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886--1966) |
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982 | (2) |
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983 | (1) |
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I Want to Die While You Love Me |
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983 | (1) |
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Marcus Garvey (1887--1940) |
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984 | (8) |
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986 | (3) |
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989 | (3) |
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992 | (8) |
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995 | (5) |
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995 | (4) |
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999 | (1) |
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Claude McKay (1889--1948) |
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1000 | (29) |
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1004 | (5) |
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1005 | (1) |
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1005 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1006 | (1) |
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1007 | (1) |
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1007 | (5) |
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Chapter XVII He Also Loved |
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1007 | (5) |
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1012 | (17) |
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1012 | (12) |
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From
Chapter XVI. The "Blue Cinema" |
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1024 | (5) |
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891--1960) |
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1029 | (50) |
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1032 | (8) |
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
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1040 | (3) |
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1043 | (7) |
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Characteristics of Negro Expression |
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1050 | (12) |
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1062 | (8) |
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1062 | (8) |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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1070 | (9) |
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1070 | (4) |
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1074 | (5) |
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Nella Larsen (1893--1964) |
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1079 | (62) |
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1080 | (61) |
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1141 | (77) |
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1143 | (75) |
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George Samuel Schuyler (1895--1977) |
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1218 | (19) |
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1219 | (3) |
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1222 | (15) |
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1222 | (8) |
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1230 | (7) |
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Rudolph Fisher (1897--1934) |
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1237 | (12) |
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1238 | (11) |
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Eric Walrond (1898--1966) |
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1249 | (11) |
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1251 | (9) |
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Paul Robeson (1898--1976) |
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1260 | (5) |
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1262 | (3) |
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Marita Bonner (1899--1971) |
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1265 | (4) |
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On Being Young---a Woman---and Colored |
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1266 | (3) |
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Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) |
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1269 | (21) |
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1271 | (1) |
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When de Saints Go Ma'ching Home |
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1272 | (4) |
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1276 | (1) |
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1277 | (1) |
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1278 | (2) |
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1280 | (1) |
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1281 | (2) |
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1283 | (1) |
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1284 | (2) |
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1286 | (2) |
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1288 | (1) |
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1289 | (1) |
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902--1981) |
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1290 | (3) |
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1292 | (1) |
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1292 | (1) |
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Wallace Thurman (1902-1934) |
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1293 | (9) |
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1294 | (8) |
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Chapter XXI [ Harlem Salon] |
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1294 | (8) |
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Langston Hughes (1902--1967) |
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1302 | (37) |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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1304 | (1) |
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1305 | (1) |
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1305 | (1) |
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1306 | (1) |
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1306 | (1) |
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1307 | (1) |
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1308 | (1) |
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Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret |
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1308 | (1) |
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1309 | (1) |
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1309 | (1) |
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1309 | (2) |
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1311 | (1) |
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1311 | (1) |
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Gal's Cry for a Dying Lover |
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1311 | (1) |
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1312 | (1) |
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1312 | (1) |
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1313 | (1) |
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1313 | (1) |
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1314 | (1) |
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1315 | (1) |
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1316 | (1) |
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1317 | (1) |
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1318 | (1) |
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1318 | (1) |
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1319 | (1) |
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1319 | (1) |
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1319 | (1) |
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The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain |
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1320 | (4) |
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1324 | (13) |
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When the Negro Was in Vogue |
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1324 | (6) |
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1330 | (4) |
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1334 | (3) |
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1337 | (2) |
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Nicolas Guillen (1902--1989) |
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1339 | (6) |
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1341 | (1) |
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1342 | (3) |
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Countee Cullen (1903--1946) |
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1345 | (13) |
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1347 | (1) |
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1348 | (1) |
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1348 | (1) |
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1349 | (1) |
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1349 | (5) |
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1354 | (2) |
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To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time |
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1356 | (2) |
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1358 | (1) |
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Richard Bruce Nugent (1906--1987) |
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1358 | (12) |
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1360 | (10) |
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Helene Johnson (1907--1995) |
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1370 | |
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1371 | (1) |
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Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem |
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1371 | (1) |
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1372 | |
| Timeline |
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1373 | (10) |
| Selected Bibliographies |
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1383 | (1) |
| General Readings |
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1383 | (8) |
| The Vernacular Tradition |
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1391 | (1) |
| Literature Of Slavery And Freedom |
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1392 | (5) |
| Literature Of The Reconstruction To The New Negro Renaissance |
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1397 | (3) |
| Harlem Renaissance |
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1400 | (9) |
| Permissions Acknowledgments |
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1409 | (4) |
| Index |
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1413 | (104) |
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Volume 2 Realism, Naturalism, Modernism to the Present |
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| Preface |
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xxi | |
| Acknowledgments |
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xxix | |
| Introduction: Talking Books |
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xxxiii | |
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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) |
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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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Dorothy West (1907--1998) |
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114 | (5) |
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115 | (4) |
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115 | (1) |
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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) |
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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 | (1) |
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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) |
|
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) |
|
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) |
|
Amiri Baraka (1934--2014) |
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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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Jayne Cortez (1936--2012) |
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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 X---An 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) |
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| Introduction |
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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 Luna---and 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 | (26) |
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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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David Walker (1785--1830) |
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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 | (6) |
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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 |
|
1527 | (1) |
| General Readings |
|
1527 | (8) |
| The Vernacular Tradition |
|
1535 | (1) |
| Realism, Naturalism, Modernism |
|
1536 | (4) |
| The Black Arts Era |
|
1540 | (11) |
| The Contemporary Period |
|
1551 | (12) |
| Permissions Acknowledgments |
|
1563 | (6) |
| Index |
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