Table of Contents: “…Weary blues (1926) / Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset -- Fine clothes to the Jew (1927) / DuBose Heyward, Margaret Larkin -- Not without laughter (1930) / V.F. …”

Table of Contents: “…Jonah's gourd vine (1934) / Martha Gruening; Estelle Felton; Andrew Burris; Margaret Wallace -- Mules and men (1935) / Henry Lee Moon; Lewis Gannett; H.I. …”

Table of Contents: “…Bryant ; Song of Solomon (1977) / Reynolds Price, Susan Lardner ; Tar Baby (1981) / Maureen Howard, John Irving ; Beloved (1987) / Ann Snitow, Margaret Atwood ; Jazz (1992) / John Leonard, Edna O'Brien, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The contemporary fables of Toni Morrison / Barbara Christian -- Beyond realism / Keith E. …”

Table of Contents: “…Himes (1909-1984) ; Ann Petry (1911-1997) ; Robert Hayden (1913-1982) ; Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) ; Margaret Walker (1915-1998) ; Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) ; James Baldwin (1924-1987) ; Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) ; Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) -- The Blacks arts era, 1960-1975. …”