Get it together : readings about African American life / [compiled] by Akua Duku Anokye, Jacqueline Brice-Finch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anokye, Akua Duku.

Brice-Finch, Jacqueline

Isaac Norris Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--History.

History.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Social conditions.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xvii, 360 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Longman, [2003]

Contents:

1 The Color Line: Racism 1

"Of Our Spiritual Strivings" / W. E. B. DuBois 2

"What Is Race?" / Ralph Bunche 8

"The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch" / Richard Wright 12

"Who's Passing for Who?" / Langston Hughes 16

"Black Power" / James McBride 19

from The Black Notebooks / Toi Derricotte 22

"Black Identity: Shades of Beauty and Pride" / Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson, Ronald E. Hall 24

"Race-Holding" / Shelby Steele 27

"Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black" / Stanley Fish 30

"Dropping the 'One Drop' Rule" / George F. Will 37

2 Talk That Talk 41

"From African to African American" / Geneva Smitherman 43

"The Negro Dialect" / W. F. Allen 47

"Objecting to the Negro Dialect" / Literary Digest 52

"Pa Henry's Prayer" / Zora Neale Hurston 54

"Incident" / Countee Cullen 56

"Primitive Blues and Primitive Jazz" / Amiri Baraka 56

"A Legacy of Healing: Words, African Americans, and Power" / Keith Gilyard 59

"Linguistic Society of America Resolution on the Oakland 'Ebonics' Issue" / Linguistic Society of America 69

"Ebonics: When Is Dialect Acceptable English?" / Jacqueline Brice-Finch 70

"A Case for Orality in the Classroom" / Akua Duku Anokye 72

"Do We Need a National Language Policy?" / Robert W. Reising 75

"The N-Word" / Emma D. Jackson 76

"Confronting and Changing Images and Representations of Black Womanhood in Rap Music" / Gwen Pough 81

3 Warriors on the Trading Block 87

"The Narrative of William W. Brown: From Slave to Abolitionist" / William Wells Brown 90

"Black Manhattan" / James Weldon Johnson 91

"The Struggle of Curt Flood" / Charles Aikens 94

"Blue-Collar Law and Basketball" / Mark Conrad 100

"Robbing the Cradle" / Dennis A. Williams 109

"'Cinderellas' of Sport: Black Women in Track and Field" / Susan Cahn 111

"The NFL's Black Eye" / Peter King 114

"More Brains or More ..." / Jon Entine 115

"Crisis of Black Athletes on the Eve of the 21st Century" / Harry Edwards 119

"Hoop Roots" / John Edgar Wideman 125

4 Justice/Just-Us? 131

"David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles: Preamble" / David Walker 132

"We Can Be as Separate as the Fingers: Segregation from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age" / Scott L. Malcomson 135

"A Red Record: The Case Stated" / Ida B. Wells-Barnett 142

"Neither Separate Schools Nor Mixed Schools: The Chronicle of the Sacrificed Black Schoolchildren" / Derrick Bell 148

"elegy" / Sonia Sanchez 163

"Shopping in a Group While Black: A Coach's Story" / Kenneth Meeks 165

"From the Inside Looking Out: Twenty-Nine Years in the New York Police Department" / Lieutenant Arthur Doyle 168

"My Brother's Keeper" / Johnnie Cochran 173

"The Witch-Hunt" / Mary Fisher 181

"The Clarence Thomas Fiasco" / Carl Rowan 193

5 The Mirror Has Many Faces 205

"Black Beginnings: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation" / Donald Bogle 206

"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" / James Baldwin 216

"Je suis un homme" / Ted Joans 219

"I Am a Black Woman" / Mari Evans 221

"The Many Shades of Black: Angela McArthur and Celia Delaney" / John Langston Gwaltney 223

"Culture: Negro, Black, and Nigger" / Johnetta B. Cole 231

"Bill Cosby and the Politics of Race" / Michael Eric Dyson 237

"Black Lesbians: Passing, Stereotypes, and Transformation" / Jewelle Gomez 244

6 One Family, One Blood 253

"The Slave Family" / John W. Blassingame 254

"Plantation Courtship" / Frank D. Banks 269

"Laura Smalley" / Guy Bailey, Natalie Maynor, Patricia Cukor-Avila 270

"The Idea of Ancestry" / Etheridge Knight 273

"Color Him Father: An Interview" / Joseph Beam 275

"A Woman Just Wouldn't" / Elizabeth Clark-Lewis 277

"The Myth of the Welfare Queen" / Farai Chideya 282

"In Praise of Black Family Reunions" / Anna Mulrine 286

"A Family Legacy" / Marian Wright Edelman 287

"Turning the Corner on Father Absence in Black America: About the Morehouse Conference" / Morehouse Research Institute 289

7 We Come This Far by Faith 309

"Sending Up Some Timber: Elderly Slaves and Religious Leadership in the Antebellum Slave Community" / Stacey K. Close 311

"Steal Away: Traditional Spiritual" / Gwendolyn Sims Warren 319

"The Subject of My Call to Preach Renewed" / Jarena Lee 321

"Black Churches and Segregation" / Frederick Douglass 327

"Together and in Harness: Women's Traditions in the Sanctified Church" / Cheryl Townsend Gilkes 329

"Mecca" / Malcolm X, Alex Haley 333

"Roselily" / Alice Walker 336

"Why a Black Gay Church?" / James S. Tinney 340

"Completing the Circle: Notes on African Art, Society, and Religion in Oyotunji, South Carolina" / Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara 342

"For U.S. Blacks, an Ancient Faith, a Renewed Hope" / Monica Rhor 346

"Coming to Faith" / Susan Taylor 348.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.

ISBN:

0321092686

OCLC:

50519172