Uncle Tom's Children

Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South

In 1900, a mere 35 years after the Civil War had ended the practice of one human being owning another, Pauline Hopkins, black and female, published Contending Forces, whose rediscovery here shocks us into recognition that our national literature does inde

The Heath Anthology of American Literature Volume B: Early Nineteenth Century: 1800-1865

Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology continues to balance the traditiona

The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Volume D: Modern Period, 1910-1945

Unrivaled diversity and teachability have made The Heath Anthology a best-selling text since the publication of its first edition in 1989. In presenting a more inclusive canon of American literature, The Heath Anthology continues to balance the traditiona

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers in the late 1930s, it is a historical and sociological acc

Black Power: The Color Curtain / Black Power / White Man, Listen!

Three extraordinary nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth entry, together in one volume for the first time, with an introduction by Cornel West.Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright′s B

Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Literary Fiction by African-American Writers

Thirty-two stories examine African American lesbian and gay identity.

The Long Dream

Now available in a new edition. Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Long Dream is a novel rich in characterization and plot that dramatizes Richard Wright's themes of oppression, exploitation, corruption, and flight. It is the story of Fishbelly (call

The Outsider

"Wright presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.As Mar

Haiku

"As good a haiku poet as this country has ever produced."--Seattle WeeklyLike all great writers, Richard Wright never failed to create works of breathtaking originality, depth, and beauty. With Native Son he gave us Bigger Thomas, still one of the most pr