| Foreword |
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xi | |
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| Preface |
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xiii | |
| Acknowledgments |
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xix | |
| 1900-1950: The Harlem Renaissance ``...the perfumed orchid of the New Negro Movement'' |
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1 | (106) |
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Natalie (1898) |
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28 | (11) |
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Angelina Weld Grimke: The Closing Door (1919) |
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39 | (17) |
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Langston Hughes: Blessed Assurance |
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56 | (7) |
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Wallace Thurman: from Infants of the Spring (1932) |
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63 | (10) |
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Richard Bruce Nugent: Smoke, Lilies, and Jade (1925) |
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73 | (15) |
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Countee Cullen: from One Way to Heaven (1932) |
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88 | (19) |
| 1950-1980: The Protest Era ``I dream of your freedom/as my victory...'' |
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107 | (160) |
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Owen Dodson: from Boy at the Window (1951) |
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136 | (12) |
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James Baldwin: from Another Country (1962) |
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148 | (16) |
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Rosa Guy: from Ruby (1976) |
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164 | (12) |
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Audre Lorde: from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) |
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176 | (15) |
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Samuel R. Delany: Aye, and Gomoxrah... (1967) |
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191 | (12) |
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Red Jordan Arobateau: from Suzie Q (1978) |
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203 | (14) |
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Julie Blackwomon: Symbols (1990) |
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217 | (13) |
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Alice Walker: This Is How It Happened (2000) |
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230 | (6) |
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Michelle Cliff: Ecce Homo (2000) |
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236 | (5) |
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Cheryl Clarke: Women of Summer (1977) |
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241 | (26) |
| 1980-2000: Coming Out Black, Like Us ``Now I speak and my burden is lightened...'' |
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267 | (232) |
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Becky Birtha: In the Life (1987) |
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288 | (13) |
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Alexis DeVeaux: Bird of Paradise (1992) |
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301 | (6) |
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Jewelle Gomez: from The Gilda Stories (1991) |
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307 | (11) |
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Melvin Dixon: from Vanishing Rooms (1991) |
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318 | (14) |
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Donna Allegra: Dance of the Cranes (1997) |
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332 | (16) |
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Steven Corbin: from A Hundred Days from Now (1994) |
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348 | (11) |
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Canaan Parker: from The Color of Trees (1992) |
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359 | (8) |
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April Sinclair: from Coffee Will Make You Black (1994) |
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367 | (11) |
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Larry Duplechan: from Captain Swing (1998) |
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378 | (7) |
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E. Lynn Harris: from Invisible Life (1991) |
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385 | (8) |
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Shay Youngblood: from Soul Kiss (1997) |
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393 | (8) |
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Helen Elaine Lee: from The Serpent's Gift (1994) |
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401 | (10) |
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Randall Kenan: The Foundations of the Earth (1992) |
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411 | (18) |
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Jacqueline Woodson: from From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (1995) |
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429 | (8) |
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Bil Wright: from Sunday You Learn How to Box (2000) |
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437 | (11) |
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Darieck Scott: from Traitor to the Race (1995) |
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448 | (8) |
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Thomas Glave: Whose Song? (2000) |
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456 | (13) |
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James Earl Hardy: from B-Boy Blues (1994) |
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469 | (8) |
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Brian Keith Jackson: from Walking Through Mirrors (1998) |
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477 | (10) |
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Marci Blackman: from Po Man's Child (1999) |
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487 | (12) |
| Notes |
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499 | (7) |
| Permissions |
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506 | (3) |
| Bibliography |
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509 | (34) |
| About the Editors |
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543 | (1) |
| Index |
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544 | |
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