San Antonio College Library

Presents selected works from "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes," and "The Ways of White Folks."

Giant steps presents a vibrant and wonderfully diverse collection of young black writing. Includes selections of award-winning poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers born after 1960.

"This collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans. Here are essays on a variety of subjects informed by - but not necessarily about - the experience of blackness, as seen through the eyes of some of our finest writers." "From art, entertainment, and science to technology, sexuality, and current events - including the battle for the Democratic nomination for the presidency - the essays in this inaugural anthology...

This landmark collection is available for the first time since the turn of the century. Represented in this treasury of the rich black storytelling tradition are the writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson, Fannie Barrier Williams, T. Thomas Fortune, and Augustus M. Hodges. 12 line drawings. Padded case cover and ribbon marker.

An examination of black images in American literature as projected and reflected in works by various black and white writers. Cannady comes to grip with questions such as: can white writers create black characters; can black writers describe anything but "the black experience;" and who creates a black image the author takes the position that "black and white Americans know each other well, that good writing creates real images no matter what the color...

Synopsis: This collection features Dunbar's (1872-1906) previously unpublished dramatic works, short stories, essays, and poems-approximately 75 works in six genres. The dramatic works include plays, musicals, and musical lyrics and fragments. The essays discuss Dickens and Thackeray, England from the Black perspective, black life and society in Washington, higher education, plagiarism, the literary portrayal of black people, and Booker T. Washington....

Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

An anthology featuring the contributions of some of today's leading African-American writers features a wide variety of fiction and poetry from the renowned literary journal Callaloo.