Brotherman : the odyssey of black men in America / edited by Herb Boyd and Robert Allen ; illustrations by Tom Feelings.
The first anthology of African American literature devoted to exclusively male writings. Contains over 100 selections.
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| Other title: | Brother man. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
One World,
1995.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- I am a black man / George Edward Tait
- IKOP MBOG : an account of an African child's initiation / Nouk Bassomb
- On viewing the coast of Africa / Howard Thurman
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
- Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington
- Let the dead bury their dead / Randall Kenan
- The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois
- Message of Marcus Garvey to membership of Universal Negro Improvement Association from Atlanta prison / Marcus Garvey
- Juneteenth / Ralph Ellison
- Poem for my father / Quincy Troupe
- Black boy / Richard Wright
- Father / Langston Hughes
- Notes of a native son / James Baldwin
- Nightmare / Malcolm X
- Colored people / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Tragic magic / Wesley Brown
- Ten seconds / Louis Edwards
- A talk with my father / Earl Ofari Hutchinson
- A private war / Nick Chiles
- Father's pledge / Haki R. Madhubuti.
- Beetlecreek / William Demby
- Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown
- Dancers on the shore / William Melvin Kelley
- Strike and fade / Henry Dumas
- The screamers / Amiri Baraka
- Way past cool / Jess Mowry
- Two fools / Jabari Asim
- Ghetto bastard / Kevin Powell
- Brer Rabbit escapes again / Yusef Salaam
- Reflecting black / Michael Eric Dyson
- The ghetto solution / Roland Gilbert, Cheo Tyehimba-Taylor
- Black women / Robert Fleming
- Middle passage / Charles Johnson
- The wife of his youth / Charles W. Chesnutt
- Another good loving blues / Arthur Flowers
- Elbow room / James Alan McPherson
- Home repairs / Trey Ellis
- The lonely crusade / Chester Himes
- Sex and racism in America / Calvin C. Hernton
- No other tale to tell / Richard Perry
- White butterfly / Walter Mosley
- All-night visitors / Clarence Major.
- First poem for Linnet / Gerald Early
- A new man / Edward Jones
- My sparrow / Ron Stodghill II
- Losing Absalom / Alexs D. Pate
- What is life? / Kalamu Ya Salaam
- A father's lament / Damu Hakim
- Makes me wanna holler / Nathan McCall
- On the A-train to Venus with Isis / Ralph Wiley
- The walls of Jericho / Rudolph Fisher
- Brothers / Sylvester Monroe
- Lush life / Playthell Benjamin
- Pledging Alpha / Kenneth Meeks
- Invisible life / E. Lynn Harris
- Vanishing rooms / Melvin Dixon
- In an afternoon light / Essex Hemphill
- African-American males and survival against AIDS / W.J. Brandy Moore
- A lesson before dying / Ernest J. Gaines.
- If we must die / Claude McKay
- The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer
- Billy / Albert French
- Shannon / Gordon Parks
- The future of black men / William Strickland
- Parallel time / Brent Staples
- Race and gender stereotyping in the Thomas confirmation hearings / Ernest Allen, Jr.
- Days of grace / Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
- Faces at the bottom of the well / Derrick Bell
- When Harlem was in vogue / David Levering Lewis
- And then we heard the thunder / John Oliver Killens
- The Port Chicago mutiny / Robert L. Allen
- Beyond Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Bloods / Wallace Terry
- Black consciousness in the Vietnam years / Clyde Taylor.
- Racehoss : big Emma's boy / Albert Race Sample
- Iron city / Lloyd L. Brown
- Black prisoners, white law / Robert Chrisman
- Brothers and keepers / John Edgar Wideman
- Makes me wanna holler / Nathan McCall
- Scars / Jarvis Masters
- Father behind bars / Arthur Hamilton, Jr. and William Banks
- Still black, still strong : survivors of the U.S. war against black revolutionaries / Dhoruba Bin Wahad
- A man called white / Walter White
- Who's passing for who? / Langston Hughes
- The almost white boy / Willard Motley
- Man in the mirror / Stanley Crouch
- Blacks who pass / Ronald E. Hall
- Black worker in the deep South / Hosea Hudson
- Blood on the forge / William Attaway
- The spook who sat by the door / Sam Greenlee
- Company man / Brent Wade
- The content of our character / Shelby Steele
- The rage of a privileged class / Ellis Cose
- Reflections of an affirmative action baby / Stephen L. Carter.
- Yet do I marvel / Countee Cullen
- Infants of the Spring / Wallace Thurman
- Falling pieces of the broken sky / Julius Lester
- Writin' is fightin' / Ishmael Reed
- The life and loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger / Cecil Brown
- On the real side / Mel Watkins
- Here I stand / Paul Robeson
- This life / Sidney Poitier
- By any means necessary : the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X / Spike Lee with Ralph Wiley.
- I never had it made / Jackie Robinson
- Playboy interview, October 1964 / Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali)
- The struggle that must be / Harry Edwards
- Out of bounds / Jim Brown
- Just let me play : the story of Charlie Sifford : the first black PGA golfer / Charlie Sifford
- Giant steps / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler
- My life / Earvin "Magic" Johnson
- Rules for staying young / Satchel Paige
- Music is my mistress / Duke Ellington
- Treat it gentle / Sidney Bechet
- The death of rhythm & blues / Nelson George
- Dance of the infidels / Alston Anderson
- Miles : the autobiography of Miles Davis / Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe
- Djbot Baghostus's run / Nathaniel Mackey
- Silence, exile, and cunning : Miles Davis in memoriam / Greg Tate
- Playboy interview, July 1990 / Quincy Jones
- The Ice opinion / Ice T.
- A different image / Dudley Randall
- The African contribution to technology and science / Yosef Ben-Jochannan
- The Africans in the New World : their contribution to science, invention, and technology / John Henrik Clarke
- From "superman" to man / J.A. Rogers
- A life of learning / John Hope Franklin
- There are days when I wish it hadn't happened (March 1979) / Alex Haley
- The challenge of a black scholar / Nathan Hare.
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. / Charles V. Hamilton
- Where do we go from here? / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Speech to African Summit Conference, Cairo Egypt / Malcolm X
- The making of black revolutionaries / James Forman
- Seize the time : the story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton / Bobby Seale
- The choice : the issue of black survival in America / Samuel F. Yette
- The man who cried I am / John A. Williams
- Black rage / William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs
- Cool pose : the proud signature of black survival / Richard Majors
- Keep hope alive / Jesse Jackson
- Toward black American empowerment / Manning Marable
- A torchlight for America / Louis Farrakhan
- Operation island storm? / Randall Robinson
- The state of black America (September 1994) / Kweisi Mfume
- The men of black enterprise / Earl G. Graves
- Succeeding against the odds / John H. Johnson with Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- Think and grow rich : a black choice / Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill
- Success runs in our race / George C. Fraser.
- I get on the bus / Reginald McKnight
- The African American holiday of Kwanzaa : a celebration of family, community, and culture / Maulana Karenga
- Afrocentricity / Molefi Kete Asante
- Kwanzaa : an African-American celebration of culture and cooking / Eric V. Copage
- The journey of Martin Luther King, Jr. / James E. Jackson
- Race matters / Cornel West.