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"Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt's land" African American history and culture, 1619-1808 -- The description of the conditions of slavery and oppression -- Racial and Religion Oppression -- Call for Deliverance: The oral tradution -- Origins: African survivals in slave folk culture -- Proverbs -- African prototypes -- Slave proverbs -- Slave proverbs and their African paralleles -- The folk cry -- The shout -- 'Ligion so sweet -- Work songs and other secular music -- African prototype -- An African sponner's song -- Early slave work songs -- An old boat song -- Antiphonal patterns of work songs -- Spirituals -- African prototypes of lengthy epic narratives -- "Sunjata" -- Spirituals as lengthy epic narratives -- "Go down, Moses" -- Praise poems -- African prototypes -- Praise poems of epic heroes -- Griot's praise song Banna Kanute's Sunjata -- Mandingo people's song Mamadou Kouyate's Sundiata -- Hunter's praise song Seydou Camara's Kambili -- Praise poems of Allah -- Griot's Praise poem of Allah Seydou Camara's Kambili -- Marabout's prophecy Banna Kanute's Sunjata -- Spirituals as paraise poems -- "God is a God" "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel" -- "Joshua fit de Battle of Jericho" -- Sermons and prayers -- African prototypes -- Sermons in epic narratives -- Griot's sermon Seydou Canara's Kambili -- Short prayers in epic narratives -- Sologan's prayer Mamadou Kauyate's Sundiata -- Short hymns in epic narratives -- "Niama" Mamadou Kouyate's Sundiata -- Spirituals as sermons and prayers -- "Humble Yo'self de bell done ring" -- "Keep me from sinking down" -- Lyrical poetry -- African prototypes -- Griot's chant Shekarisi Rurede's The Mwindo epic -- Warrior Kanji's Lament Seydou Camara's Kambili -- Spirituals as lyrical poetry -- "Were you there when they cruicified my Lord?" -- "Motherless child" -- Improvisations: Theme and variation, call and response, performance styles, rhythms and melodic structures -- African antiphonal patterns -- An old Bornu song -- Antiphonal patterns in the spirituals -- "Lay dis body down" -- African melodic structures -- Duple and triple rhythms -- Melodic structures in the spirituals -- An Example of Duple rhythms and the pentatonic scale -- "Jesus on de water-side," Slave songs of the United States -- An Example of a syncopated melody with hand clapping and foot tapping -- "Nobody knows de trouble I've had" Slave Songs of the United States -- A Spiritual composed by Ricahard Allen --
Folktales -- African folktales -- Animal trickster tales -- "The elephant and the tortoise" -- "Why the hare runs away" -- Slave folktales -- Animal trickster tales -- "Rabbit teaches bear a song" -- "T'appin" (Terrapin) -- "Tar baby" -- Tales of flying Africans -- Two tales -- Conjure tales -- Two tales from Eatonville, Florida -- Voodoo, Ghost, and Haunt tales -- "Voodoo and whtches" -- "The Headless hant -- Response: Black literary declarations of independence -- Poetry, slave narratives, letters, essays, and oratory -- Voices of slave poets -- Jupiter Hammon (1711-1806?) -- "An evening thought: salvation by Christ with Penetical [sic] cries" -- "An address to Miss Phillis Wheatly" [sic] -- "A winter piece" -- Lucy Terry (1730-1821) -- "Bars Fight" -- Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) -- "On being brought from Africa to America" -- "To the University of Cambridge, in New-England" -- "Philis's [sic] reply to the answer in our last by the gentleman in the Navy" -- "To the right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Sectretary of State for North-America, [ect.]" -- "To S.M. a young African painter, on seeing his works" -- "On the death of Rev. Mr. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770" -- "On the death of General Wooster" -- To Arbour Tanner in New Port -- To Samson Occom -- Voices of social protest in prose -- The confesstional narrative -- The life and confession of Johnson Green, Who is to be executed this day, August 17th, 1786, for the atrocious crime of burglary -- The slave narrative -- Britton Hammon (?-?) -- Narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing if the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing (sic) -- Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A negro man, servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New England; Who returned to Boston, after having been absent almost thirteen years -- Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) -- The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by himself -- Letters and essays -- Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) -- Letter to Thomas Jefferson -- Prince Hall (1735c.-1807) -- A charge, delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797 -- Lemuel B. Haynes (1753-1818) -- "Liberty further extended" -- "The battle of Lexington" -- Voices of orators -- The sermon -- Absalom Jones (1746-1818) -- A Thanksgiving sermon preached January 1, 1808 -- John Marrant (1755-1790?) -- A sermon preached on the 24th day of June 1789 -- Richard Allen (1760-1831) -- "An address to those who keep slaves and approve the practice" --
"Tell ole pharaoh, let my people go" African American history and culture, 1808-1865 -- The explanations of the desire for freedom -- Repression and racial response -- Southern folk call for resistance -- Folk poetry: Slave songs of rebellion, the underground railroad, and emancipation -- Spirituals -- "You got a right" -- "There's a better day a coming" -- "Oh Mary, don't your weep" -- " Steel away" -- "Swing low, sweet chariot" -- "Hail Mary" -- "Many thousand gone" -- "Wade in nuh watuh childun" -- "Follow the drinking gou'd" -- Sweet Canaan -- "There's a meeting here tonight" -- "Master's in the field" -- "Michael row the boat ashore" -- "Before I'd be a slave" ("Oh, freedom") -- Secular songs -- "JUba" -- "Raise a ruckus tonight" -- "We raise de wheat" -- "One time upon dis ribber" -- "Shuck dat corn before you eat" -- "Roun' de corn, Sally" -- Folktales -- John and old master tales -- "Massa and the bear" -- "John steals a pig and a sheep" -- Northern literary response: Rights for blacks, rights for women -- Mafor abolitionist voices -- David Walker (1785-1830) -- David Waler's appeal, in four articles -- Preamble -- Article I. Our wretchedness in consequence of slavery -- Sojourner Truthe (1979-99?-1883) -- Speech at Akron convention, Arkon, Ohio, May 28029, 1851; -- Reminiscences by Frances D. Gage of Sojourner -- Truth -- Speech at New York City Convention -- Address to the First annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association, New York City, May 9, 1867 -- Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America -- Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American slave written by himself -- "The rights of women" -- "What to the slave is the fourth of July?" an address delivered in Rochester, New York, on 5 July 1852 -- Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) -- "Hope for Africa" -- "The black woman of the South: Her neglects and her needs" -- Frances Watkins Harper (1824-1911) -- "The slave auction" -- "The slave mother" -- "Bury me in a free land" -- "Songs for the people" -- "A double standard" -- "Learning to read" Sketches of Southern life. -- "Aunt Chloe's politics" -- "Libery for slaves" -- "The two offers" -- "Women's political future" -- From Iola LeRoy -- Northern Experience -- Diverging paths -- Abilitionist orator-poets -- George Moses Horton (1797-1883) -- "The slave's complaint" -- "On liberty and slavery" -- "On hearing of the intention of a gentleman to purchase the poet's freedom" -- James Whitfield (1823-1871) -- "America" From America and other poems -- "Prayer of the oppressed" -- James Madison Bell (1826-1902) -- "The day and the war" -- "Emancipation in the District of Columbia, April 16, 1862" -- Abolitionist orators -- Theodore S. Wright (1791-1847) -- " The progress of the antislavery cause" -- Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) -- From Religion and the pure principles of morality, the sure foundation on which we must build -- Lecture, delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832 --
An address delivered at the Masonic Hall in Boston on February 27, 1833 -- Farewell address -- Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894) -- "The negros in the United States of America" -- Voices of social protest in prose -- The confessional narrative -- Nat Turner (1800-1831) -- The confessions of Nat Turner -- The fugitive slave narrative -- Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897) -- Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself -- Preface by the author -- Childhood -- The new master and mistress -- The jealous mistress -- The lover -- A perilous passage in a slave girl's life -- Chapter XVII. The Flight -- The loophole of retreat -- Preparations for Escape -- Northward bound -- Essays, pamphlets, letters, and journals -- Robert Purvis (1810-1898) -- Appeal of fourty thousand citizens threatened with disfranchisement to the people of Pennsylvania -- Martin R. Delany (1812-1885) The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States, politically considered -- Comparative condition of the colored people of the United States -- American colonization -- Our elevation in the United States -- Means of elevation -- Emigraiton of the colored people of the United States -- "Republic of Liberia" -- Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837-1914) -- The Journal of Charlotte Forten -- "Interesting letter from Miss Charlotte L. Forten" -- Elizabeth Keckley (?-1907) -- Behind the scenes -- The women's narrative -- Jarena Lee (1783-?) -- Religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the Gospel -- The novel or neo-slave narrative -- William Wells Brown (1815-1884) -- From A tale of the Southern States -- Chapter II. The negro sale -- Chapter X. The quadroon's home -- Chapter XI. To-day a mistress, to-morrow a slave -- The flight -- Harriet E. Adams Wilson (1828?-1863?) Our Nig: Or, sketches from the life of a free black -- A friend for Nig -- Perplexities-Another death -- The winding up of the matter --
"No more shall they in bondage toil" African American history and culture, 1865-1915 -- The description of the manner of escape from slavery and the considerations of whether the new freedom is the ideal freedom -- Reconstruction and post-Reconstriction -- Call for the ideal freedom: the folk tradition -- Folk poetry -- Spirituals -- "Free at las" -- "Singin' wid a sword in ma han'" -- My Lord, what a mornin' -- "Deep river" -- "Go tell it on de mountain" -- "When the Saints go marching in" -- "Git on board, little chillen" -- "Mighty rocky road" -- Work, badman, and prison songs -- "Casey Jones" -- "John Henry" -- "Railroad Bill" -- "Stogolee" -- "John Harty" -- "Po Laz'us" -- Rural blues -- "The Joe Turner blues" -- "Gwine down dat lonesome road" -- "Baby seals blues" -- "St. Louis blues" -- Ragtime -- "I meet dat coon tonight" -- The folk sermon -- Rev. John Jasper -- "De sun do move" -- Anonymous -- "Dry bones" -- Folktales -- Memories of slavery -- "Swapping dreams" -- "Lia's revelation" -- "Big sixteen" -- Preacher tales -- "The three preachers" -- "The wrong man in the coffin" -- "The preacher and his farmer brother" -- Response: the written tradition -- Voices of the folk tradition -- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- "The goophered grapevine" -- "The wife of his youth" -- "An ante-bellum sermon" -- When Malindy sings" -- "A negro love song" -- "The party" -- "Frederick Douglass" -- "Sympathy" -- "We wear the mask" -- "The poet" -- "A spiritual" -- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) -- "Sister Josepha" -- Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) -- "A negro peddler's song" --
"Aunt Jane Allen" -- The Banjo player" -- "Tired" -- "The scarlet woman" -- "Oratorical voices of reconstruction, race, and women's rights -- Balnche Kelso Bruce (1841-1898) -- Speech to the U.S. Senate on Mississippi election's delivered March 3, 1876 -- "The civil rights bill" -- Lucy Craft Laney (1854-1933) -- "The burden of the educated colored woman" -- Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) -- "The higher educaiton of women" A voice from the South -- Remarks before the 1893 World's Congress of Representative Women on the status of the black woman in the United States -- Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) -- "The intellectual progress of the colored women of the United States since the emancipation proclamation" -- Voices of reform -- Autobiography -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) -- Up from slavery -- A slave among slaves -- The struggle for an education -- Early days at Tuskegee -- The Atlanta exposition address -- Women's narrative -- Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900) -- A brand plucked from the fire -- Religious impressions-learning the alphabet -- The primes-going to school -- My teacher hung for crime -- Heavenly visitations again -- Public effort-excommunication -- Women in the Gospel -- The Lord leadeth-labor in Philadelphia -- Frances Jackson Coppin (1837-1913) -- Reminiscences of school life -- The Novel, or neo-slave narrative -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) -- Contending forces -- Preface -- Ma Smith's lodging-house-concluded -- The sewing-circle -- Voices of activism -- Southern horrors: lynch law in all its phases -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- The souls of black folk -- Of our spiritual strivings -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others -- Of the sorrow songs -- "A litany of Atlanta" -- "The song of the smoke" -- The Niagara movement: address to the country -- "The negro in literature and art" -- "The immediate program of the American negro" --
"Bound no'th blues" African American history and culture, 1915-1945 -- "Play the blues for me" -- Renaissance and reformation -- Folk call for political and social change -- Folk poetry -- Classic blues lyrics -- "Harlem blue" W.C. Handy -- "That thing called love" Mamie Smith -- "Tain't nobody's business if I do" Bessie Smith -- "Sissy blues" Gertrude "Ma" Rainey -- "Wild women don't have the blues" Ida Cox -- "God bless the child" Billie Holliday -- "Fast life blues" Bumble Bee slim -- "Coal woman blues" Black Boy Shine -- Rural blues lyrics of the thirties and forties -- "Dry spell blues" Eddie "Son" House -- "Hard time blues" Charlie Spand -- "Honey, I'm all out and down" Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter -- "Hollerin' the blues" (Big Bill Broonzy) -- "Crossroad blues" Robert Johnson -- Gospel songs -- "Take my hand, precious Lord" Thomas A. Dorsey -- "When I touch his garment" Langston Hughes and Jobe Huntley -- "If I can just make it in" Kenneth Morris -- Jazz -- Development of Jazz techniques in performance -- Rhythm, melody, and harmony -- Improvisation -- "(What did I do to be so) black and blue" Andy Razaf and Thomas "Fats" Waller -- Swing or big band jazz -- "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" Duke Ellington -- Boogie Woogie -- "Pine top's boogie woogie" Clarence "Pine Top" Smith -- "Dream Googie" Langston Hughes -- Bad man and prison songs -- "Garvey" -- "Champ Joe Louis" Bill Gaither -- "This mornin', this evenin', so soon" -- "Slim Greer" Sterling Brown -- Folk sermons -- God's trombones James Weldon Johnson -- "The creation" -- "Go down death-A funeral sermon" -- "Preachin the blues"-A mock sermon Bessie Smith -- Folktale Collected by Zora Neale Hurston -- Call for political and socail change -- Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) -- Speech on disarmament conference delivered at Libery Hall, New York, Novermber 6, 1921 -- Walter White (1893-1955) -- "I investigate lynchings" --
Call for critical debate -- The Alain Locke-W.E.B. Du Bois debate on the theory of black art -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- "Criteria of negro art" -- Alain Locke (1886-1954) -- "The new negro" -- Response: Voices of the harlem renaissance -- Poets -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- Preface The book of American negro poetry -- "O black and unkown bards" -- "The white witch" -- "Fragment" -- Anne Sponcer (1882-1975) -- "Before the feast at Shushan" -- "White things" -- "Lady, lady" -- "Letter to my sister" -- "[God never planted a garden]" -- Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- "The tropics in New York" -- "If we must die" -- "Baptism" -- "Tiger" -- "America" -- "Harlem shadows -- "The Harlem Dancer" -- "The white house" -- St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd" -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- "The negro speaks of rivers" -- "Dream variations" -- "Sunday morning prophecy" -- "The weary blues" -- "Jazzonia" -- "Life is fine" -- "Daybreak in Alabama" -- "Bound no'th blues" -- "Mother to son" -- "Madam's past history" -- "Ballad of the Landlord" -- "Dream boogie" -- "Harlem" -- "I, too" -- "Feet live their own life" -- "The negro artist and the racial mountain" The Nation" -- "Heritage" -- "To a dark girl" -- "Nocturne" -- "To usward" -- " Street lamps in early spring" -- "Hatred" -- "Fantasy" -- "Secret" -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- "Heritage" -- "Scottsboro, too, is worth its song" -- "Colored blues singer" -- "The litany of the dark people" -- "Yet do I marvel" -- "A song of praise" -- "Not Sacco and VAnzetti" -- Helene Johnson (1907-) -- "My race" -- "Sonnet to a negro in Harlem" -- "Bottled" -- "Trees at night" -- "The road" -- "Magalu" -- "Summer matures" -- "Fulfillment" -- Fiction writers -- Nella Larsen (1891-1964) -- Quicksand -- Passing -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- "Spunk" -- "Sweat" -- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- Cane -- "Katrintha" -- "Song of the son"-- "Fern" -- "Portrait in Georgia" -- "Seventh street" -- "Box seat" -- "Kabnis" -- "Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) -- "Miss Cynthie" -- Eric Walrond (1898-1966) -- Response: Voices of the Reformation -- Poets -- Sterling Brown (1901-1989) -- "When de Saints go ma'chin' home" -- "Southern road" -- "Ma Rainey" -- "Old Lem" -- "Strong men" -- Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) -- "Jazz band" -- "Robert Whitmore" -- "Arthur Ridgewood, M.D." -- "Giles Johnson, Ph.D." -- Fiction writers -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- "Long black song" -- Ann Petry (1908-) -- "Like a winding sheet" -- "Miss Muriel" -- Chester Himes (1909-1984) -- "Marihuana and a pistol" --
"Win the war blues" African American history and culture, 1945-1960 -- "Play the blues for me" -- Post-Renaissance and post-Reformation -- Folk call for victory at home and abroad -- Folk poetry -- Urban blues lyrics -- "Win the war blues" Sonny Boy Williamson -- "Hitler blues" The Florida Kid -- "Eisenhower blues" J.B. Lenoir -- "Louisiana blues" Muddy Water -- "Back to Korea blues" Sunnyland slim -- "Future blues" Willie Brown -- Gospels and spirituals -- "We shall overcome©" -- "Gimme dat ol'-time religion" arranged by J. Rosamond Johnson -- "Move on up a little higher" Mahalia Jackson and Theodore Fryre -- "I know it was the Lord" Clara Ward -- Rhythm and blues lyrics -- "The twist" (Hand Ballard; performed by Chubby Checker -- "Good golly Miss Molly" John S. Marascalco and Robert A. Blackwell; performed by Little Richard -- Bop and cool jazz -- "Parker's Mood" Charlie '"Yardbird" Parker -- "Donna Lee" Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, Miles Davis -- "Flatted fifths" Langston Hughes -- Bad women folk ballads Margaret Walker -- "Molly means" -- "Kissie Lee" -- Folk sermon -- "The prodical son" C.L. Franklin -- Call for critical debate -- Hugh M. Gloster (1911-) -- "Race and the negro writer" -- Nick Aaron Ford (1904-1982) -- "A Bluepint for negro authors" -- Ann Petry (1908-) -- "The novel as social criticism" -- Response: voices of African American tradition and moderism -- Poets -- Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) -- "Dark Symphony" -- "Lambda" Harlem gallery -- Robert Hayden (1913-1980) -- "Homage to the empress of the blues" -- "Middle passage" -- "Runagate runagate" -- "Frederick Douglass" -- "Elegies for Paradise Valley" -- "A letter from Phillis Wheatley" -- Dudley Randall (1914-) -- "Booker T. and W.E.B." -- "Legacy: My south" -- "Ancestors" -- Owen Dobson (1914-1983) -- "Sorrow is the only faithful one" -- "Yardbird's skull (for Charlei Parker)" -- "Guitar" -- Margaret Esse Danner (1915-1988) -- "Far from Africa: Four poems" -- " The rhetoric of Langston Hughes" -- "The slave and the iron lace" -- "Passive resistance" -- Margaret Walker (1915-) -- "For my people" -- "Lineage" -- "The ballad of the free" -- "Prophets for a new day" -- " The crystal palace" -- "A patchwork quilt" -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-) -- "the mother" -- "the children of the poor" -- "The last quatrain of the ballad of Emmett Till" -- "The Chicago devender sends a man to Little Rock" -- "We real cool" --
"The wall" -- "The Chicago Picasso" -- "Medgar Evers" -- "Malcom X" -- "The serrmon on the warpland" -- "To an old black woman, homeless and indistinct" -- Maomi Long Madgett (1923-) -- "Midway" -- "The old women" -- "New Day" -- "Monday morning blues" -- "A litaney for Afro-Americans -- Playwrights -- Alice Childress (1920-1994) -- Wedding band -- Lorraine Hansberry -- A raisin in the sun -- Fiction writers -- Dorthy West (1907-) -- "The richer, the poorer" -- Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) -- "Prologue" Invisible man -- "Juneteenth" -- John Oliver Killens (1916-1987) -- "The stick up" -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -- "Sonny's blues" -- "Everybody's protest novel" -- Paule Marshall (1929-) -- "Barbados" -- Praisesong for the window --
"Cross road blues" African American history and culture, 1960 to the present -- "No other music'll ease my misery" -- Social revolution, new renaissance, and second reconstruction -- Folk call for social revolution and political strategy -- Folk poetry -- Urban blues lyrics -- "The thrill is gone" B.B. King -- "I pity the fool" Bobby "Blue" Bland -- "Back door man" Howlin' Wolf -- "Am I blue?" Ray Charles -- "Big boss man" Jimmy Reed -- Rythm and blues lyrics -- "Respect" Otis Reddings; as interpreted by Aretha Franklin -- "Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud" James Brown -- "Keep on pushing" Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions -- "What's going on" Marvin Gaye, A. Cleveland, and R. Benson -- Spirituals and gospels adapted for the liberation movement -- "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round" -- "Keep your eyes on the prize" -- "This little light of mine" -- "We shall not be moved" -- Avant-garde jazz -- Rap lyrics -- "The revolution will not be televised" Gil Scott-Heron -- "Rapper's delight" The Sugar Hill Gang -- "The message" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five -- "Paid in full" Eric B. and Rakim -- "Don't believe the hype" Public Enemy -- "Fight the power" Public Enemy -- "Ladies first" Queen Latifah and Monie Love -- "Just a friendly game of baseball" Main Source -- "Freedom of speech" Ice T -- A rap "Philadelphia fire" John Wideman -- Toasts -- "Signifyin' monkey" version by Oscar Brown, Jr. -- Folk sermon -- "Ezekiel and the vision of dry bones" version by Carl J. Anderson; collected and transcribed by Gerald Davis -- Contemporary folktales collected by Daryl C. Dance -- "In the beginning" -- "How blacks got to America" -- "He remembered" -- "Don't call my name" -- "The only two I can trust" -- "I'm gon' get in the drawer" -- "Outsmarting Whitey" -- "Call for political and social strategy -- Malcolm X (1925-1965) -- Speech to African Summit Conference-Cairo, Egypt -- Martin Luter King, Jr. (1929-1968) -- "I have a dream" -- Stokely Carmichael (1941-) -- "Black power" -- Jesse Jackson (1941-) -- Address: Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984 -- Angela Davis (1944-) -- "Reflections on the black woman's role in the community of slaves" -- Call for critical debate -- "The balck arts movement" -- Joyce Ann Joyce (1949-) -- "The black canon: Reconstructing black American literary criticism" -- " 'What's love got to do it?': Critical theory, intgrity, and the black idiom" -- Response: Voices of the new black renaissance -- Voices of the black arts movement -- The new black poets -- Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) -- "The idea of ancestry" -- "The violent space (or when your sister sleeps around form money)" -- "Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane" -- "He sees through stone" -- "A poem for myself (or blues for a Mississippi black boy)" -- "Ilu, the talking drum)" -- "The bones of my fater" -- Sonia Sanchez (1934-) -- "the final solution/" -- "right on: white america" -- "Summer words of a sistuh addict" -- "Masks" --
"now poem, for us." -- "Blues" -- "Woman" -- "under a soprano sky" -- Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) (1934-) -- "Preface to a twenty volume suicide note" -- "Black art" -- "SOS" -- "Black people: this is our destiny" -- "A poem for black hearts" -- "Ka 'Ba" -- "leory" -- "An agony. As now." -- "A poem some people will have to understand" -- "Three movements and a coda" -- "Numbers, letters" -- "Dope" -- "Wise 1" -- Dutchman -- Jayne Cortez (1936-) -- "In the morning" -- "Orisha" -- "So many feathers" -- "Grinding vibrato" -- "Rape" -- Lucille Clifton (1936-) -- "miss rosie" -- "for deLawd" -- "my mama moved among the days" -- "good times" -- "the lost baby poem" -- "homage to my hips" -- "what the mirror siad" -- "the making of poems" -- Haki R. Fadhubuti (Don L. Lee) (1942-) -- "Don't cry, scream" -- "Two poems" "Sketches from a black-nappy-headed poet" -- "We walk the way of the New World" -- "Assassination" -- "But he was cool or: he even stopped for green lights" -- "My brothers" -- "White on black crime" -- Carolyn Rodgers (1943-) -- "Me, in Kulu Se [and] Karma" -- "Poem for some black women" -- "5 winos" -- "U name this one" -- "It is deep" -- "For Soundra" -- "Revolutionary music" -- "Nikki-Rosa" -- "The women gather" -- "Ego tripping (there may be a reason why)" -- The new breed -- Albert Murray (1916-) -- "Train Whistle Guitar" -- Mari Evans -- "I am a black woman" -- "into blackness softly" -- "Speak the truth to the people" -- "Black jam for dr. negro" -- "conceptuality" -- "Still I rise" -- "Woman me" -- "My Arkansas" -- "On diverse deviations" -- I know why the caged bird sings -- Kristin Hunter (1931-) -- "Forget-me-not" -- Tom Dent (1932-) -- "For Walter Washington" -- "For Lawrence Sly" -- "Magnolia Street" -- Ernest J. Gaines (1933-) -- "Three men" -- Henry Dumas (1934-1968) -- Art of bones -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- "Coal" -- "Power" -- "Never take fire from a woman" --
"Solstice" -- "The woman thing" -- "Stations" -- "Legacy-hers" -- June Jordan (1936-) -- "All the world moved" -- "The new Pietà: For the mothers and children of Detroit" -- "In memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr." -- "You came with shells" -- "Poem about my rights" -- William Melvin Kelley (1937-) -- "Homesick blues" -- "Come back blues" -- "Song: I want a witness" -- "To James Brown" -- "Effendi" -- "In Hayden's collage" -- "Last affair: Bessie's blues song" -- Ishmael Reed (1938-) -- "I am a cowboy in the boat of Ra" -- "Sermonette" -- "Beware: do not read this poem" -- "Why I often allude to Osiris" -- "Lincoln-Swille" Flight to Canada -- Al Young (1939-) -- "A dance for militant dilettantes" -- "For Arl in her sixth month" -- "There is a sadness" -- "The old O.O. blues: introduction" -- "A solo song: for doc" -- Quincy Troupe (1943-) -- "Reflections on growing older" -- "It all boils down" -- "Snake-back solo" -- "For Malcolm who walks in the eyes of our children" -- Women's voices of self-definition -- Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford) (1931) -- The bluest eye -- "Recitatif" -- Toni Cade Banbara (1939-1995) -- "My man Bovanne" -- Alice Walker -- "Everyday use" -- "In search of our mothers' gardens" -- "The empress band trim: Ruby reminisces" -- "The peacock poems: 2" -- Clenora Hudson-Weems (1945-) -- "Africana womanism: An historical, global perspective for women of African descent" -- Barbara Smith (1946-) -- "Toward a black feminist criticism" -- Ntozake Shange (1948-) -- "somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff' for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf -- Gayl Jones (1949-) -- "Ravenna" -- Gloria Naylor (1950-) -- Mama Day -- bell hooks (1952-) -- "Black women: Shaping feninist theory" -- Terry McMillan (1951-) -- "Franklin" Disappearing acts -- How Stella got her groove back -- Voices of the new wave -- Askia Muhammad Touré (1938-) -- "Osirian Rhapsody: A myth" -- "Dawnsong!" -- John Edgar Wideman (1941-) -- "newborn thrown in trash and dies" -- August Wilson (1945) -- Joe Turner's come and gone -- Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-) -- "Camouflaging the Chimera" -- "Hanoi Hannah" -- "Missing in aciton" -- "Facing it" -- Charles Johnson (1948-) -- "The sorcerer's apprintice" --
Jamaica Kincaid (1949-) -- "Columbus in chains" Annie John -- Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) -- Vanishing rooms -- Anna Deavere Smith (1950-) -- Fires in the mirror -- Rita Dove (1952-) -- "Roast possum" -- "Dusting" -- "Taking in wash" -- "Under the viaduct, 1932" -- "The great palaces of Versailles" -- Reginald McKnight (1956-) -- "I get on the bus" I get on the bus -- Charles I. Nero (1956-) -- "Toward a black gay aesthetic" -- Kamaria Muntu (1959-) -- "Of women and spirit" -- "Lymphoma" -- Randall Kenan (1963-) -- "The foundations of the Earth" -- Contents of audio compact disc -- "Sunyetta" [excerpt] (traditional) 3:49-performed by Abdoulie Samba, vocal and halam; Folkways album The Griots "Go down, moses" (traditional) 3:00- Bill McAdoo, Folkways
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