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Intro •
Diagnostic Essay
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Paul Laurence Dunbar N 905-928
Ode to Ethiopia 907 • A Negro Love Song 909 • The Colored Soldiers 910 • An Ante-Bellum Sermon 912 • When Malindy Sings 916 • We Wear the Mask 918 • Sympathy 922
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Rosewood [dvd]
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Sterling Brown N 1248-66
Odyssey of Big Boy 1248 • Long Gone 1250 • Southern Road 1251 • Strong Men 252 • Memphis Blues 1254 • Slim Greer 1256 • Tin Roof Blues 1257 • Ma Rainey 1258 • Cabaret 1260 • Sporting Beasley 1262 • Sam Smiley 1263
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Alain Locke The New Negro N 983-93
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Langston Hughes from Collected Poems
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 23 • Justice 31 • Dreams 32 • Migration 36 • I, Too 46 • The Weary Blues 50 • America 52 • Star Seeker 64 • Bound No'th Blues 76 • Po' Boy Blues 83
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Hughes from Collected Poems (cont.)
Scottsboro 142 • Christ in Alabama 143 • Open Letter to the South 160 • Good Morning Revolution 162 • Goodbye Christ 166 • One More 'S' in the U.S.A 176 • Let America Be America Again 189
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Hughes (cont.)

Montage of a Dream Deferred 387-429
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Hughes, Montage cont.
Paper 1 Preparation
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Videos
Letter to the President (video)
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Letter to the President (video) cont.
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Paper 1 Due
Robert Hayden N 1516-34
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Amistad (video)
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Amistad
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Gwendolyn Brooks N 1623-96
 
Kitchenette Building 1625 • The Mother 1625 • A Song in the Front Yard 1626 • Sadie and Maud 1627 • Maxie Allen 1632 • The Rites for Cousin Vit 1633 • The Lovers of the Poor 1635 • We Real Cool 1638 • The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock 1638 • Malcolm X 1640 • Riot 1643 • The Sermon on the Warpland (online) • The Second Sermon on the Warpland (online) • The Third Sermon on the Warpland 1644 • Brooks & Black Publishers [pdf file] • On Warpland 1 • On Warpland 2
 
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Amiri Baraka & Black Arts
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note • In Memory of Radio • A Poem for Black Hearts • I don't love you • Three Movements and a Coda • SOS • Black Art • The Invention of Comics • Dutchman • Revolutionary Theatre (Notes)
Larry Neal, "The Black Arts Movement," N 2038 (notes)
Addison Gayle, "The Black Aesthetic," N 1911 (notes)
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Nikki Giovanni N 2096-2101
For Saundra 2096 • Beautiful Black Men 2097 • Nikki-Rosa 2098 • Knoxville, Tennessee 2097 • From a Logical Point of View 2099 • Kidnap Poem • Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) • All Eyez On U • Revolutionary Dreams • Weather as a Cultural Determiner • Conversation

Audre Lorde N
Never to Dream of Spiders • Poetry Is Not a Luxury • Interview by Rich [pdf file]  

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Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf
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Conclusions / Black vs. Western Aesthtics
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FINAL PAPER due