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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Postbellum Period, 1865-1900
1 FRANK J. WEBB
TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB: AN ORIGINAL TALE (1870)
2 FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER
SOWING AND REAPING (1876–77)
Chapter 1 [Setting Out in Life]
Chapter 2 The Decision
Chapter 4 [Every Man Has His Price]
Chapter 6 [The Verge of a Precipice]
Chapter 7 [The Engagement]
Chapter 8 [Sowing and Reaping]
Chapter 9 [Belle Gordon]
Chapter 10 [A Drunkard’s Wife]
3 PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
THE UNCALLED (1898)
Chapter 10 [The Seminary]
Chapter 11 [The Sermon]
Chapter 12 [The Ordination]
PART II: Between the World Wars, 1919-1940
4 NELLA LARSEN
THE WRONG MAN (1926)
FREEDOM (1926)
5 JEAN TOOMER
YORK BEACH (1928)
Chapter 1 [The Perfect Place]
Chapter 2 [Individuality]
6 Wallace Thurman
THE INTERNE (1932)
Chapter 2 [Flanagan Hall]
Chapter 3 [Touring the Hospital]
Chapter 9 [The Fire]
Chapter 12 [Carl’s Problems]
PART III: After World War II, 1945-1960
7 FRANK YERBY
THE FOXES OF HARROW (1946)
Chapter 1 [New Orleans]
8 ANN PETRY
COUNTRY PLACE (1947)
Chapter 1 [Lennox, Connecticut]
Chapter 7 [A Discovery]
Chapter 8 [Mearns Gramby]
Chapter 25 [The Will]
9 ZORA NEALE HURSTON
SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE (1948)
Chapter 1 [The Secret Life of Arvay]
10 Chester B. Himes
YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY (1952)
Book 2: Flood of Tears Chapter 9 [Memories]
Book 3: Shall Become the Same at Last Chapter 1 [A Riot]
11 RICHARD WRIGHT
SAVAGE HOLIDAY (1954): Part One: Anxiety
12 JAMES BALDWIN
GIOVANNI’S ROOM (1956): Chapter 1 [The Flight]
PART IV: Contemporary Period after 1965
13 SAMUEL R. DELANY
TIME CONSIDERED AS A HELIX OF SEMI-PRECIOUS STONES (1968)
14 TONI MORRISON
RECITATIF (1983)
15 OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
BLOODCHILD (1984)
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