Profiles more than twenty significant African-American writers from the period 1940-55, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide career biographies of thirty-three African-American writers active before the Harlem Renaissance; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography.
Presents a selection of poems, short stories, novel excerpts, essays, and other writings by African-American authors, grouped by theme, with biographical introductions, and vocabulary notes.
A collection of nineteen short fiction stories by a variety of authors in which they explore various aspects of race in America, including selections by Alice Adams, Reynolds Price, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Reginald McKnight, and others.
