Black writers of America a comprehensive antholog
by Richard Barksdale and Keneth Kinnamon
- New York The Macmillan Company 1972
- 917 p.
Includes Bibliography and index
I. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BEGINNINGS -- -- The Major Writers -- A Poet and an Intellectual -- -- II. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST SLAVERY AND RACISM: 1800-1860 -- -- The Major Writers -- The Struggle for Civil Rights -- Black Abolitionists -- Black Nationalists -- The Fugitive Slave Narrative -- Poetry -- Religion -- Folk Literature -- -- III. THE BLACK MAN IN THE CIVIL WAR: 1861-1865 -- -- The Black Man in Battle -- Two Black Soldiers Comment -- Two Black Women Serve and Observe -- Folk Literature of Emancipation and Freedom -- -- IV. RECONSTRUCTION AND REACTION: 1865-1915 -- -- The Major Writers -- History -- Autobiography -- Race Politics -- Poetry -- Folk Literature -- -- V. RENAISSANCE AND RADICALISM: 1915-1945 -- -- The Major Writers -- Oratory and Essays -- Fiction -- Poetry -- Drama -- Folk Literature -- -- VI. THE PRESENT GENERATION: SINCE 1945 -- -- The Major Writers -- Fiction -- Poetry -- Drama -- Essay --Racial Spokeman -- Folk Literature.
American literature --African American authors African Americans --Literary collections. American literature --African American authors -- Bibliography.