Stories Collection

  1. Merle Kinbona in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People and Avey Johnson in Praisesong...
  2. Steven Watson. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. Ne...
  3. Krin Gabbard, ed. Representing Jazz. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 320 pp. $16.95. --, ed. J...
  4. Gita Brown. Be I Whole. Aspen, CO: MacMurray and Beck, 1995. 267pp. $16.95. The re...
  5. Nikky Finney, a South Carolinian Black woman, wrote Rice, her second collection of po...
  6. David L. Chappell. Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement. ...
  7. Cheryl A. Wall. Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. 266 p...
  8. James Weldon Johnson. The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Volume I: The Ne...
  9. Moore Campbell. Brothers and Sisters. New York: Berkeley, 1994. 544 pp. $6.99. The...
  10. The streets were dark with something more than night. (Raymond Chandler, "The Simple ...
  11. John Hope Franklin and Genna Ree McNeil. African Americans and the Living Constitutio...
  12. Carla L. Peterson. "Doers of the Word". African-American Women Speakers and Writers i...
  13. Carson, Clayborne, ed. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume II--Rediscoverin...
  14. Anna Deavere Smith. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1994. 26...
  15. By his own account, James Baldwin wrote The Amen Corner in reaction to the reception ...
  16. Judith Kelleher Schafer. Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. ...
  17. Kimberly Rae Connor. Conversions and Vision in the Writings of African-American Women...
  18. Gloria Wade-Gayles, ed. My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality. ...
  19. Alvin Aubert. Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems. Lotus Poetry Series. East Lansing: Mic...
  20. Dear Members of the American Theater Community, We can continue to publish article...
  21. In recent decades, at least one groundbreaking work of black theater has caught fire,...
  22. Tejumola Olaniyan. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. 196 pp. $42.000 cloth/$16.95 paper. ...
  23. The August Wilson/Robert Brustein debate held at the Town Hall in New York City in Fe...
  24. Son of Jim Crow, Grandson of Ole Massa, is alive, vicious, well, and busy making babi...
  25. Harry J. Elam, Jr., and Robert Alexander, eds. New York: Plume, 1996. 651 pp. $16.95....
  26. If you begin a journey on the wrong foot, you will end up in the wrong place. (Africa...
  27. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in his The Signifying Monkey. A Theory of African-American Li...
  28. James V. Hatch and Ted Shine, eds. New York: Free P, 1996. 916 pp. $60.00 cloth/$40.0...
  29. As the ETA Creative Arts Foundation is in the middle of our 25th Anniversary Year, I ...
  30. In 1810, amid public sensation, scandal, and debate, Saartjie (pronounced, in Afrikaa...
  31. Sydne Mahone, ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1994. 448 pp. $15.95. Mo...
  32. These brief remarks question which ropes might be used to hang African American theat...
  33. Pearl Cleage, highly regarded poet and essayist, first gained widespread recognition ...
  34. William B. Branch, ed. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1993. 443 pp. $39.95 cloth/$18.95 pap...
  35. Mama Tate says there are fifty black people in the world who know how to read and wri...
  36. In the American heartland, Chicago's esteemed Goodman Theater has mounted on its stag...
  37. In a speech delivered on June 26, 1996, to the 11th biennial Theatre Communications G...
  38. Helen Taylor, in reviewing Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company, an antholog...
  39. The Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Washington, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversa...
  40. We done sold Africa for the price of tomatoes. We done sold ourselves to the white ma...
  41. This play was originally written as a monologue for one woman. Experiments in subsequ...
  42. On June 26, 1996, before a cross-section of America's theater community gathered in P...
  43. Woodie King, Jr., was born in Alabama in 1937 and, from the age of 9, reared in Detro...
  44. August Wilson's keynote address to the 1996 biennial conference of the Theatre Commun...
  45. On two occasions, I have witnessed playwright August Wilson stir his audience into an...
  46. Roger Guenveur Smith. Joseph Papp Public Theatre, New York City, Feb-Mar. 1997. Th...
  47. In the movie Straight, No Chaser, Thelonious Monk enters a recording studio for Colum...
  48. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening ...
  49. Belinda Hurmence, ed. We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard. Winston-Salem: John F. ...
  50. Wesley Brown. Darktown Strutters. New York: Cane Hill P, 1994. 224 pp. $1195. Anyb...
  51. It's as if you are given the sky to carry, lift it on your shoulders and take it t...
  52. In a recent article in War, Literature, and the Arts, Perry D. Luckett took to task s...
  53. Robert Gooding-Williams, ed. W. E. B. Du Bois: Of Cultural and Racial Identity. Massa...
  54. Caryl Phillips. Crossing the River. Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1994. 237 pp. $22.00. I...
  55. On the dashboard there is a panel of disappointment. Buttons don't turn as they sh...
  56. Stephen Nathan Haymes. Race, Culture, and the City: A Pedagogy for Black Urban Strugg...
  57. Arnold Rampersad, ed. Richard Wright: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Clif...
  58. Maryse Conde. Crossing the Mangrove. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Anchor-Doubled...
  59. In the gymnasium the balls spun from their fingers like spiders' silk, fine and...
  60. John Egerton. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movem...
  61. Alan Nadel, ed. "May All Your Fences Have Gates": Essays on the Drama of August Wilso...
  62. Lester, Julius. And All Our Wounds Forgiven. New York: Arcade, 1994. 228 pp. $19.95. ...
  63. A child cannot be like a poem. My mother assures me of this. She says that you ...
  64. Phillip Brian Harper. Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture. Ne...
  65. Yvonne Captain-Hidalgo. The Culture of Fiction in the Works of Manuel Zapata Olivella...
  66. George S. Schuyler. Ethiopian Stories. Ed. Robert A. Hill. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1...
  67. In college, we used to call them the "light brigade," that cluster of girls with s...
  68. Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike. Black African Cinema. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994. 401...
  69. Edward A. Berlin. King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era. New York: Oxford UP, 199...
  70. Someone told me soft endings lead nowhere Very particular, Lead more to palace ...
  71. Paul Edwards and David Dabydeen, eds. Black Writers in Britain, 1760-1890. New York: ...
  72. Valerie Smith, ed. New Essays on Song of Solomon. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 128 p...
  73. Zora Neale Hurston identified a central concern in the representational character of ...
  74. A thing or work of art that has ashe transcends ordinary questions about its makeup a...
  75. Wolfgang Karrer and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, eds. The African American Short Story 1...
  76. Danille Taylor-Guthrie. Conversations with Toni Morrison. Jackson: U of Mississippi P...
  77. Nella Larsen's portrait of Helga Crane in Quicksand (1928) criticizes the ways in whi...
  78. lyn nching h hi tech ly lynching ch lynching hi tech hi hing hi te ...
  79. Emilia Viotti da Costa. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion...
  80. Samuel R. Delany. Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Som...
  81. When Baby Suggs, Beloved's ancestor figure and moral beacon, expresses her view of wh...
  82. ... just as utopia signifies "no place," so does "New Negro" signify a "black person ...
  83. Edwards, Paul, and Polly Rewt, eds. Letters of Ignatius Sancho. Edinburgh: Edinburgh ...
  84. Gerald Early. Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1994. 234...
  85. Reading Possessing the Secret of Joy is a dual exercise in reading culture. First, th...
  86. This book is important because of the quality of its analysis, the breadth of its kno...
  87. For years, in order to contrast the authentic admiration of French fans who, from the...
  88. In Jamaica, when people exclaim, "See me dying trial," they are calling on a higher b...
  89. who's to step forth and be our guide on the shores of this lake so large it might jus...
  90. In his highly detailed and intriguing philosophical work Vessels of Evil, Laurence Th...
  91. For years, in order to contrast the authentic admiration of French fans who, from the...
  92. School of Udhra is Nathaniel Mackey's second full-length book of poetry, and represen...
  93. the bar is not crowded ... few men ... fewer women ... small round tables, metal legs...
  94. James Oliver Horton is widely known for the pioneering study of Boston's antebellum b...
  95. Unlike other major figures in jazz history, Louis Armstrong has seldom been attached ...
  96. the day of the accident we were waiting for the train on the elevated platform above ...
  97. Dana Nelson presents her important and engaging study of "race" in selected Anglo Ame...
  98. Professors of American literature frequently bemoan the fact that college students of...
  99. By the power lines, their long catenaries dipped with copper, I stop at the clearing ...
  100. Peering through the keyhole into Derrick Bell's latest work incites pithy questions. ...
  101. Minton's work will be of value to scholars interested in the debate over the origins ...
  102. I've got to hide, he told himself. His chest heaved as he waited, crouching in a dark...
  103. Mama picked them from a loam of dead relatives, resurrections. One kick & she named N...
  104. One of the consistent themes in the writings of John Edgar Wideman has been the statu...
  105. The fourteen essays in this collection address issues of ethnicity in the fields of l...
  106. "HooDoo" explains Ishmael Reed in Shrovetide in Old New Orleans, "might be called Vod...
  107. 1 The woods in morning when mist rises from lowground the very earth is breathing. Wh...
  108. In an effort to raise money while on speaking tours, Sojourner Truth would offer for ...
  109. Here are separate essays on Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth...
  110. Funderburg: What do you hope to remedy with Commonplace, your recently established, n...
  111. She had the blues so bad she lay down wallowed in it she said You can set my cup of c...
  112. At its publication in London and Edinburgh in 1831, The History of Mary Prince, A Wes...
  113. With the publication of the Library of America editions of Richard Wright's major wor...
  114. To no modern race do its women mean so much as to the Negro, nor come so near to the ...
  115. Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940) is widely recognized as a seminal work and o...
  116. The Library of America series, created with the support of the National Endowment for...
  117. When Richard Wright's Native Son was published in 1940, it was a success de scandal. ...
  118. Oh - Just can't keep a real good woman down Oh - Just can't keep a real good woman do...
  119. When The Long Dream, Wright's last novel, written in exile in France, appeared in 195...
  120. As an act of literary archaeology, Frances Smith Foster has brought forth three previ...
  121. In Jamaica, when people exclaim, "See me dying trial," they are calling on a higher b...
  122. On a rainy evening in September, 1972, when I was 24 years old and a master's degree ...
  123. The 1988 Cambridge Guide to Theatre, write the editors of the book under review, "was...
  124. The opportunity we have had to serve as guest editors of this special issue devoted t...
  125. I know that if I want to smoke, I shall have to reach out my right arm and take the p...
  126. (With apologies to Herman Hesse's "The Indian Life") Guest Editors' Note: When we fir...
  127. In recent interviews and in Being & Race: Black Writing since 1970, Charles Johnson o...
  128. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" Johnson's collection of "tales and conjurations" ends unc...
  129. When Rutherford Calhoun goes, Ishmael-like, to the waterfront early in Charles Johnso...
  130. Charles Johnson's volume of short stories The Sorcerer's Apprentice opposes the artis...
  131. Charles Johnson has written a searching introduction to the Plume edition of Oxherdin...
  132. Books by Johnson Black Humor [cartoons]. Chicago: Johnson publishing, 1970. Half-Past...
  133. Building upon Derrida's notions of the text as a refusal of boundaries and of writing...
  134. In 1922 James Weldon Johnson warned in his Book of American Negro Poetry that "the fi...
  135. This collection of previously unpublished essays unites thirty-five contributors from...
  136. When approached to participate in this interview, Charles Johnson responded with his ...
  137. Laura Doyle's book is a valuable addition to a recent movement in cultural studies. A...
  138. Art is a social construct. A work of art is what an artist says is a work of art, and...
  139. Reviewed by Dena J. Epstein University of Chicago (retired In compiling a collection ...
  140. Reviewed by Matthew C. Brennan Indiana State University Lenard Moore's first two full...
  141. What's it called when niggers toting gifts go calling door-to-door? Father's Day in t...
  142. Reviewed by Sterling Stuckey University of California, Riverside Disillusioned by adv...
  143. Reviewed by Matthew C. Brennan Indiana State University Lenard Moore's first two full...
  144. Though Phillis Wheatley's poetry has received considerable critical attention, much o...
  145. Reviewed by Rudolph P. Byrd Emory University Frederick L. Rusch's A Jean Toomer Reade...
  146. Reviewed by Fahamisha Patricia Brown Trinity College (Hartford, CT) I will court you ...
  147. Attempts to define Toni Morrison's novel Sula are as numerous as they are diverse. Th...
  148. Reviewed by Rudolph P. Byrd Emory University Frederick L. Rusch's A Jean Toomer Reade...
  149. Reviewed by Jerome Klinkowitz University of Northern Iowa Philip Lewis's first novel ...
  150. The experimental flourish of the Counterculture and Civil Rights Movement eras brough...
  151. Reviewed by George Hutchinson University of Tennessee-Knoxville I must begin by admit...
  152. Reviewed by Barbara Chase-Ribound Paris A History of African Artists from 1792 to the...
  153. Reviewed by Heather Hathaway Marquette University A pairing of the Black Mountain poe...
  154. Reviewed by Trudier Harris Emory University Seldom does reading a scholarly book beco...
  155. Reviewed by Bemard Nganga Universite Marien Ngouabi In his introduction to this book,...
  156. Reviewed by Craig Wemer University of Wisconsin-Madison An important change is taking...
  157. Reviewed by Shirley Lumpkin Marshall University Chanting his signature refrain, "Hand...
  158. Critical accounts of African American literary history and U.S. radicalism of the 194...
  159. Reviewed by Craig Wemer University of Wisconsin-Madison An important change is taking...
  160. Reviewed by E. Ethelbert Miller Howard University There are a number of African Ameri...
  161. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man - the narrative of a fair-skinned mulatto man...
  162. Reviewed by Roger Abrahams University of Pennsylvania With the development of the bla...
  163. Reviewed by Pinkie Gordon Lane Baton Rouge, Louisiana Naomi Long Madgett has provided...
  164. The work of Katherine Dunham, Zora Neale Hurston, and Pearl Primus - building on the ...
  165. The period between 1960 and 1970 represents an era of important and extraordinary cul...
  166. for goat carson let us not read too much into the titles of this session, june 6, 195...
  167. The past decade and a half has witnessed the emergence of the most recent "seed" in t...
  168. On July 19, 1994, I was privileged to spend several hours with Dick Griffey in his of...
  169. In this narrative from an interview, poet-philosopher Willie Dixon (1915-1992) gives ...
  170. In the following interview, Herman Leonard speaks about his jazz photography, example...
  171. "i mean," sez budd johnson, "they wasn't calling it bebop then. even monk couldn't ex...
  172. After reading many articles supposedly concerning rap music - about the social aspect...
  173. "Homophobic lyrics in black music are more powerful than the religious Right is in mi...
  174. Since my bio on Jimi Hendrix was published 15 years ago, I would suppose by now that ...
  175. I was into the Orioles, Ruth Brown, Larry Darnell, Louis Jordan, The Ravens - ya know...
  176. monk once was busted along with bud powell sitting in a car with a packet of heroin o...
  177. The early decades of the twentieth century were, in many respects, the beginning of t...
  178. Our music is our Mother Tongue, our meta-language that we use for the fullest express...
  179. Like a lot of thirty-something white folks, I had my first musical crush on rock and ...
  180. I passed through Ra's orbit when they 1st arrived from Chicago into the Loisaida (pre...
  181. Can it be merely accidental that recent works by such otherwise dissimilar film maker...
  182. The first full decade of radio broadcasting in the United States coincided with the f...
  183. African American gospel music forms an important part of the community's aesthetic ex...
  184. The drumset is a 20th-century American instrument whose historical development has la...
  185. We don't go on stage with one person trying to put a will on the music. We prime ours...
  186. I do not use the term "jazz," as I do not use such terms as Negro, Oriental, or Hispa...
  187. African music has been a resilient but partially unacknowledged force in Western popu...
  188. At night the loading dock doors are open to the truckyard. The church sits in the mid...
  189. Reviewed by Mary Kemp Davis Meredith College In walking slowly along one of the cross...
  190. The fist is a hand that has made decisions. It has sat on a rock holding its thoughts...
  191. Reviewed by Arlene Elder University of Cincinnati Marcy Knopf's The Sleeper Wakes add...
  192. i sit at home day in hand gray cat turned around my feet knowing headlights pavement ...
  193. Reviewed by Yoshinobu Hakutani Kent State University Since 1970, Wright criticism has...
  194. for all the lost years of imprisonment & That Beam of Light which came into the cell ...
  195. Reviewed by Barbara Lewis New York University "Owen's career walked the very edge of ...
  196. When, in early December of 1987, the news came of Jimmy s death in France at the age ...
  197. Charles Johnson's main emphasis in Oxherding Tale (1982) is on black written textuali...