African+American+Voice

=Phillis Wheatley= Poetry: "On Being Brought from Africa to America"

=Harriet Jacobs= Novel excerpt: //Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl// (skim)

=Frederick Douglass= Novel excerpt: //Narrative of Frederick Douglass// (in-class, selected readings) Speech: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

=Charles W. Chesnutt= Short Story: "The Wife of His Youth"

=Paul Laurence Dunbar= Poem: "Sympathy" Poem: "We Wear the Mask" Poem: "Frederick Douglass" Poem: "Harriet Beecher Stowe"

=Claude McKay= Poem: "The Harlem Dancer" Poem: "Harlem Shadows" Poem: "The Lynching" Poem: "If We Must Die" Poem: "Africa" Poem: "America"

=Arna Bontemps= Poem: A Black Man Talks of Reaping

=Zora Neale Hurston= Short Story: "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"

=Jean Toomer= Novel excerpt: //Cane// (skim)

=Langston Hughes= Poem: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Poem: "Mother to Son" Poem: "I, Too" Poem: "The Weary Blues" Poem: "Mulatto" Poem: "Song for a Dark Girl" Poem: "Visitors to the Black Belt" Poem: "Note on Commercial Theatre" Poem: "Democracy" Poem: "Theme for English B" Poem: "Harlem"

=James Weldon Johnson= Poem: My City

=Countee Cullen= Poem: "Yet Do I Marvel" Poem: "Incident" Poem: "Heritage"

=Toni Cade Bambara= Short Story: "The Lesson"

=Gwendolyn Brooks= Excerpt: "Primer for Blacks" Poem: "We Real Cool" Poem: "Life for My Child is Simple"

=Amira Baraka= Poem: [|Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note] = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =