The goal of this anthology is to provide enough material for an entire survey course and in the process form a canon of African American literature. This third edition responds to the wealth of
suggestions from instructors and students using the book in classrooms. The 140 writers represent African American vernacular traditions, poetry, drama, short fiction, the novel, slave
narratives, essays, memoir, and autobiography. The first volume proceeds from beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance. Among the entries are the blues, Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W. E.
B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, and Paul Robeson. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
