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African American and Caribbean Writing: An Anthology

FICTION


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

POETRY


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

DRAMA


Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

ESSAYS


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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