FICTION
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| James Baldwin |
Sonny's Blues |
| Ralph Ellison |
Battle Royal |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
Sweat |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
Girl |
| Alice Walker |
Everyday Use |
| Richard Wright |
The Man Who Was Almost a Man |
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POETRY
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| Gwendolyn Brooks |
The Bean Eaters |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
The Mother |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
We Real Cool |
| Lucille Clifton |
at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989 |
| Jayne Cortez |
Into This Time |
| Countee Cullen |
Incident |
| Toi Derricotte |
A Note on My Son's Face |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar |
We Wear the Mask |
| Michael S. Harper |
Nightmare Begins Responsibility |
| Langston Hughes |
Harlem |
| Langston Hughes |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
| Allison Joseph |
On Being Told I Don't Speak Like a Black Person |
| Yusef Komunyakaa |
Facing It |
| Claude McKay |
America |
| Thylias Moss |
Tornados |
| Dudley Randall |
Ballad of Birmingham |
| Quincy Troupe |
Snake-Back Solo 2 |
| Derek Walcott |
Sea Grapes |
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DRAMA
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| Lorraine Hansberry |
A Raisin in the Sun |
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ESSAYS
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| Maya Angelou |
Champion of the World |
| Maya Angelou |
Graduation |
| James Baldwin |
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? |
| James Baldwin |
Notes of a Native Son |
| James Baldwin |
Stranger in the Village |
| Stephen Carter |
The Insufficiency of Honesty |
| Edwidge Danticat |
We Are Ugly, but We Are Here |
| Frederick Douglass |
Learning to Read and Write |
| Frederick Douglass |
Resurrection |
| Michael Eric Dyson |
The Public Obligations of Intellectuals |
| Ralph Ellison |
On Being the Target of Discrimination |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
A Richer American Identity |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Talking Black |
| Malcolm Gladwell |
Something Borrowed |
| Langston Hughes |
Salvation |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
The Ugly Tourist |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
I Have a Dream |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| Charles R. Lawrence III |
On Racist Speech |
| Audre Lorde |
The Fourth of July |
| Malcolm X |
Coming to an Awareness of Language |
| Malcolm X |
Learning to Read |
| Barbara Mellix |
From Outside, In |
| Joan Morgan |
Sex, Lies, and Videos |
| Gloria Naylor |
The Meanings of a Word |
| Ishmael Reed |
America: The Multinational Society |
| Shelby Steele |
I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent? |
| Shelby Steele |
On Being Black and Middle Class |
| Beverly Daniel Tatum |
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? |
| Sojourner Truth |
A'n't I a Woman? |
| Alice Walker |
Am I Blue? |
| Alice Walker |
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self |
| Alice Walker |
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
| Cornel West |
On Black Fathering |
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