Heritage : African American readings for writing / Margaret Giles Lee, Joyce M. Jarrett, Doreatha Drummond Mbalia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Margaret Giles.

Jarrett, Joyce M.

Mbalia, Doreatha D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Readers--African Americans.

Readers.

English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric.

African Americans.

African Americans--Problems, exercises, etc.

Report writing--Problems, exercises, etc.

Report writing.

College readers.

Genre:

Problems and exercises.

Physical Description:

xxi, 506 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2002]

Summary:

Unique in its perspective and range, this anthology uses diverse essays, short stories, poems and plays by and about African Americans to stimulate critical reading, thinking, discussion, and writing. It first provides a comprehensive process-oriented writing guide, and then offers a diverse collection of readings that provide models and reflect the rich heritage of African American culture. Over 100 essays, short stories, poems, and plays by and/or about African Americans feature works by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Arthur Ashe -- as well as lesser known but equally talented writers. An exploration of eighteen themes throughout the book includes slavery, African American women, male-female relationships, politics, freedom/equality, arts and media, education, folklore, and interracial relationships among others.

Contents:

Part I Understanding the Writing Process

Chapter 1 Planning Writing 1

Planning Strategies 3

Considering Your Purpose and Understanding Your Audience 6

Developing the Thesis 7

Supporting the Thesis 8

Organizational Strategies 8

Other Organizational Tips 11

Chapter 2 Writing the First Draft 12

Drafting Tips 13

Beginnings and Endings 14

Ways of Beginning Your Essay 14

Ways of Ending Your Essay 15

The First Draft 16

Chapter 3 Revising and Editing 18

Practical Guides for Revising and Editing 19

Revising and Editing Guide 20

Revising and Editing Example 20

Revision Comments 21

Editing Comments 21

Revised and Edited Draft 22

Second (Rewritten) Draft 24

Chapter 4 Writing About Literature 27

Observations on Reading and Writing About Literature 28

Guide for Reading and Writing About Literature 32

A Work in Progress 35

Part II Thematic Contents

Chapter 5 Slavery 39

On Being Brought from Africa / Phillis Wheatley 39

Bury Me in a Free Land / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 41

And Arn't I a Women? / Sojourner Truth 43

How a Slave was Made a man / Frederick Douglass 48

Student Essay: Fruits of Labor, Fruits of Sorrow, Fruits of Love / Hakimah Alim Gregory 56

Chapter 6 African American Women 59

The Spirit of March Must Be Kept Alive / Margaret Giles Lee 59

I am a Black Woman / Mari Evans 62

Everyday Use / Alice Walker 65

Slavery and Womenhood / Angela Y. Davis 75

Student Essay: Islam and African American Women / Vernell Munadi 81

Chapter 7 African American Men 84

A Fling on the Track / Bill Cosby 84

Blacks in Vietnam / Robert Mullen 87

Black Men and Public Space / Brent Staples 93

Respect on the Streets / Elijah Anderson 97

Student Essay: Are Black Males Becoming an Endangered Species? / Dwayne Griffin 102

Chapter 8 Childhood - Adolescence - Growing Up 105

Girl / Jamaica Kincaid 105

Alice / Paulette Childress White 108

Living Jim Crow / Richard Wright 112

Finishing School / Maya Angelou 120

Student Essay: Stone City / Jerome Mason 127

Chapter 9 Family 131

Mother to Son / Langston Hughes 131

Such a Paradise that I Lived / Jamaica Kincaid 133

Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden 137

Dear Mama / Wanda Coleman 139

Student Essay: the Positive Environment in Black Female-Headed Families / Camille Gray 141

Chapter 10 Male-Female Relationships 143

Like a Winding Sheet / Ann Petry 143

Different Zones / Marita Golden 154

A Summer Tragedy / Arna Bontemps 158

Just Don't Never Give Up on Love / Sonia Sanchez 169

Student Essay: Positive Affirmations Among African American Men and Women / Jason Orr 174

Chapter 11 Civil Rights 177

Emmett Till is Dead / Anne Moody 177

Howard University: A rude Awakening / Cleveland Sellers 186

Don't Let Them See You Cry / Elizabeth Eckford 191

Looking Back at "Brown," / Adolph Reed, Jr. 194

Student Essay: The Criminal Justice System and Poor Blacks / Marshall Mercy 199

Chapter 12 Freedom - Equality - Unity - Protest 201

Freedom / Joyce M. Jarrett 201

We Wear the Mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar 205

If We Must Die / Claude McKay 207

The Rap on Frederick Douglass / Roger Guenveur Smith 209

U.N.I.T.Y. / Queen Latifah 212

Student Essay: Reparations for Slavery / Andreer Henderson 215

Chapter 13 Arts - Science - Media 218

Black Like Me / Margot Lee 218

Artists of the Harlem Renaissance / Federal Writers' Project 221

The Slave Inventor / Portia James 226

Student Essay: Aids in the African American Community / Stephanie Haynes 230

Chapter 14 Religion - Church 232

Salvation / Langston Hughes 232

The Creation / James Weldon Johnson 236

The Dynamic Tension in the Black Church / Michael A. Battle, Sr. 240

The Stumbling Block / Paul Laurence Dunbar 244

Student Essay: The Tradition of Ifa / Karl Nichols 251

Chapter 15 Heritage - Identity 254

To Know One's History is to Know Oneself / John Henrik Clarke 254

Kunta Kinte is Born / Alex Haley 260

To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals / Gwendolyn Brooks 264

I Get on the Bus / Reginald McKnight 266

Student Essay: Kwanzaa: an African American Holiday / William Weir 272

Chapter 16 Reading - Writing - Education 274

Discovering the Writer in Me / Terry McMillan 274

Send Your Children to the Libraries / Arthur Ashe 280

My Self-Education / Malcolm X 284

Bringing Technology to the African American Community / Grady Wells 291

Student Essay: Public Schools for African American Males: Are They Necessary? / Byron T. Thompson 297

Chapter 17 Political Philosophies 300

Double Consciousness / W.E.B. DuBois 300

Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington 303

Garvey Speaks at Madison Square Garden / Marcus Garvey 307

Becoming a Republican / Tony Brown 312

Student Essay: The Black Panther Party / Khadijah A. Mayo 317

Chapter 18 African American Language 320

Mommy, What Does "Nigger" Mean? / Gloria Naylor 320

African American Youth Resist Standard English / Felicia R. Lee 325

Black Talk / Geneva Smitherman 329

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? / James Baldwin 334

Student Essay: The Question of Name: African or African American? / Cyril Austin Greene 338

Chapter 19 Folklore 341

How Buck Won His Freedom / Anonymous 341

Brer Rabbit and the Goobers 343

I Get Born / Zora Neale Hurston 345

The Ghost of Orion / John Edgar Wideman 350

Student Essay: Folktales: An African-American Treasure / Elizabeth Mitchell 357

Chapter 20 Racism - Discrimination 359

Incident / Countee Cullen 359

A Difference of Opinion / Toni Morrison 361

For My People / Margaret Walker 365

Sometimes Symbols Don't Symbolize Much of Anything / William Raspberry 368

Jazz and the Cold War: The Trick Bag / Elliot Bratton 371

When the "Paranoids" Turn out to be Right / Brent Staples 380

Student Essay: Poverty and Education / Melinda Elaine Edmond 383

Chapter 21 Interracial Relationships 385

Becky / Jean Toomer 385

Betrayal? When Black Men Date White Women / Bebe Moore Campbell 390

Color Me Real / J. California Cooper 395

What's American About America? / Ishmael Reed 407

Student Essay: Society Rejects Mixed Children / Mia Elliott 412

Chapter 22 Intraracial Prejudice 414

The Revolt of the Evil Fairies / Ted Poston 414

Debut / Kristin Hunter 420

Homecoming Queens / JoNina M. Abron 429

Student Essay: Black is Beautiful

All Shades / Andrea Providence Robinson 432

Chapter 23 Supplemental Readings 434

My Life in Black and White / Pauli Murray 434

My Blackness is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 440

The True Nature of Racism / R. Benjamin Lee 443

Multiculturalism: What is it, and is it Good or Bad? / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 447

Am I Blue? / Alice Walker 449

Cowards From the Colleges / Langston Hughes 454

Student Essay: Female Genital Mutilation and Castration / Anika Yetunde 464.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-487) and index.

ISBN:

0130141224

OCLC:

48221479