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The Odvssev of Black Men in America Herb Bovd THE ODVSSEV OF BLACK MEN IN AMERICA EDITED BY HERB BOVD AND ROBERT L. ALLEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY TOM FEELINGS SUB Gdttlngen 206126 530 97A4330 ONE WORLD BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK CONTENTS Introduction xxi Prologue STERLING BROWN Strong Men (Opening Stanzas) PART 1: FOREFATHERS The Griot's Woke GEORGE EDWARD TAIT / Am a Black Man 7 NOUK BASSOMB IKOP MBOG: An Account of an African Child's Initiation 9 HOWARD THURMAN On Viewing the Coast of Africa 11 FREDERICK DOUGLASS Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 12 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Up from Slavery 20 RANDALL KENAN Let the Dead Bury Their Dead 27 W. E. B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk 36 viii • Contents MARCUS GARVEY Message of Marcus Garvey to Membership of Universal Negro Improvement Association from Atlanta Prison 41 RALPH ELLISON Juneteenth • 44 PART 2: A SON IN THE FAMILY Of Fathers and Sons QUINCY TROUPE Poem for My Father 57 RICHARD WRIGHT Black Boy 59 LANGSTON HUGHES- Father 66 JAMES BALDWIN Notes of a Native Son 72 MALCOLM X Nightmare 11 HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Colored People 85 WESLEY BROWN . Tragic Magic 91 Louis EDWARDS Ten Seconds 96 EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON A Talk with My Father 100 NICK CHILES A Private War 110 HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Father's Pledge 118 Boyz n the Hood WILLIAM DEMBY Beetlecreek 120 CLAUDE BROWN Manchild in the Promised Land 122 Contents • ix WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY Dancers on the Shore 126 HENRY DUMAS Strike and Fade 132 AMIRI BARAKA The Screamers 135 JESS MOWRY . Way Past Cool 140 JABARI ASIM Two Fools 148 KEVIN POWELL Ghetto Bastard 151 YUSEF BALAAM Brer Rabbit Escapes Again 154 MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Reflecting Black 158 ROLAND GILBERT/CHEO TYEHIMBA-TAYLOR The Ghetto Solution , 168 PART 3: RELATIONSHIPS VIhen a Man Loves a Woman ROBERT FLEMING Black Women 181 CHARLES JOHNSON Middle Passage 182 CHARLES W. CHESNUTT The Wife of His Youth • 194 ARTHUR FLOWERS Another Good Loving Blues 203 JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON Elbow Room . 209 TREYELUS Home Repairs 214 CHESTER HIMES The Lonely Crusade 219 x • Contents CALVIN C. HERNTON Sex and Racism in America 223 RICHARD PERRY No Other Tale to Tell 228 WALTER MOSLEY White Butterfly 231 CLARENCE MAJOR Ail-Night Visitors 235 What's Love Got to Do with It GERALD EARLY First Poem for Linnet • 241 EDWARD JONES A New Man 244 RON STODGHILL II My Sparrow 251 ALEXS D. PATE Losing Absalom 256 KALAMU YA SALAAM What Is Life? 264 DAMU HAKIM A Father's Lament 269 NATHAN MCCALL Makes Me Wanna Holler 212 RALPH WILEY On the A-Train to Venus with Isis 278 My brother's Keeper RUDOLPH FISHER The Walls of Jericho 286 SYLVESTER MONROE Brothers 290 PlAYTHELL BENJAMIN Lush Life 297 Contents • xl KENNETH MEEKS Pledging Alpha E. LYNN HARRIS Invisible Life MELVIN DLXON Vanishing Rooms ESSEX HEMPHILL In an Afternoon Light W. J. BRANDY MOORE African-American Males and Survival Against AIDS ERNEST J. GAINES A Lesson Before Dying PART 4: TROUBLE MAN The Permanence of Racism CLAUDE MCKAY If We Must Die PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR The Lynching ofjube Benson JEAN TOOMER Blood-Burning Moon ALBERT FRENCH Billy GORDON PARKS Shannon WILLIAM STRICKLAND ' The Future of Black Men BRENT STAPLES Parallel Time ERNEST ALLEN, JR. Race and Gender Stereotyping in the Thomas Confirmation Hearings ARTHUR ASHE AND ARNOLD RAMPERSAD Days of Grace DERRICK BELL Faces at the Bottom of the Well xll • Contents Fighting on Two Fronts DAVID LEVERING LEWIS When Harlem Was in Vogue 311 JOHN OLIVER KILLENS And Then We Heard the Thunder 379 ROBERT L. ALLEN The Port Chicago Mutiny 385 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Beyond Vietnam 392 WALLACE TERRY Bloods 395 CLYDE TAYLOR Black Consciousness in the Vietnam Years 399 Locked In and Locked Out ALBERT RACE SAMPLE Racehoss: Big Emma's Boy 404 LLOYD L. BROWN Iron City 410 ROBERT CHRISMAN Black Prisoners, White Law 414 JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN Brothers and Keepers 418 NATHAN MCCALL Makes Me Wanna Holler 426 JARVIS MASTERS Scars 433 ARTHUR HAMILTON, JR., AND WILLIAM BANKS Father Behind Bars 438 DHORUBA BIN WAHAD Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries 441 Contents • xlii Color and Class WALTER WHITE A Man Called White 448 LANGSTON HUGHES Who's Passing for Who? 455 WILLARD MOTLEY The Almost White Boy 459 STANLEY CROUCH Man in the Mirror 461 RONALD E. HALL Blacks Who Pass 471 HOSEA HUDSON Black Worker in the Deep South 411 WILLIAM ATTAWAY Blood on the Forge 481 SAM GREENLEE The Spook Who Sat By the Door 484 BRENT WADE Company Man 489 SHELBY STEELE The Content of Our Character 496 ELLIS COSE The Rage of a Privileged Class 500 STEPHEN L. CARTER Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby 506 PART 5: BLACK MAGIC And Bid Him Sing COUNTEE CULLEN Yet Do I Marvel 513 WALLACE THURMAN Infants of the Spring 514 JULIUS LESTER Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky 516 xiv • Contents ISHMAEL REED Writin' Is Fightin' 520 We Wear the Mask CECIL BROWN The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger 524 MEL WATKINS On the Real Side 527 PAUL ROBESON Here I Stand 534 SIDNEY POITIER This Life 537 SPIKE LEE WITH RALPH WILEY By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of Malcolm X 548 In the Game JACKIE ROBINSON / Never Had It Made 561 CASSIUS CLAY (MUHAMMAD ALI) Playboy Interview (October 1964) 570 HARRY EDWARDS The Struggle That Must Be 579 JIM BROWN Out of Bounds 593 CHARLIE SIFFORD Just Let Me Play: The Story of Charlie Sifford— The First Black PGA Golfer 597 KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR AND PETER KNOBLER Giant Steps 603 EARVIN "MAGIC" JOHNSON My Life 611 SATCHEL PAIGE Rules for Staying Young 619 Contents • xv Be-Bop, Doo-Vfop, Hip-Hop DUKE ELLINGTON Music Is My Mistress 621 SIDNEY BECHET Treat It Gentle 624 NELSON GEORGE The Death of Rhythm & Blues 630 ALSTON ANDERSQN Dance of the Infidels 636 MILES DAVIS WITH QUINCY TROUPE Miles: The Autobiography of Miles Davis 647 NATHANIEL MACKEY DJbot Baghostus's Run 658 GREG TATE Silence, Exile, and Cunning: Miles Davis in Memoriam 663 QUINCY JONES Playboy Interview (July 1990) 667 ICET The Ice Opinion 677 PART 6: SANKOFA: PAST AS PROLOGUE Deep Roots DUDLEY RANDALL A Different Image 685 YOSEF BEN-JOCHANNAN The African Contribution to Technology and Science 685 JOHN HENRIK CLARKE The Africans in the New World: Their Contribution to Science, Invention, and Technology 691 J. A. ROGERS From "Superman" to Man 691 JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN A Life of Learning 705 ALEX HALEY There Are Days When I Wish It Hadn't Happened (March 1979) 111 xvi • Contents NATHAN HARE The Challenge of a Black Scholar 722 No Justice, No Peace CHARLES V HAMILTON Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 730 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Where Do We Go from Here? 136 MALCOLM X Speech to African Summit Conference—Cairo, Egypt 744 JAMES FORMAN The Making of Black Revolutionaries 148 BOBBY SEALE • Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton 755 SAMUEL F. YETTE The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America 762 JOHN A. WILLIAMS The Man Who Cried I Am 768 WILLIAM H. GRIER AND PRICE M. COBBS Black Rage 111 RICHARD MAJORS Cool Pose: The Proud Signature of Black Survival 785 JESSE JACKSON Keep Hope Alive . 789 MANNING MARABLE Toward Black American Empowerment . • 799 Louis FARRAKHAN A Torchlight for America 809 RANDALL ROBINSON Operation Island Storm? 815 KWEISI MFUME The State of Black America (September 1994) ' 818 Contents • xvll Black Gold EARL G. GRAVES The Men of Black Enterprise 826 JOHN H. JOHNSON WITH LERONE BENNETT, JR. Succeeding Against the Odds 828 DENNIS KIMBRO AND NAPOLEON HILL Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice , 832 GEORGE C. FRASER Success Runs' in Our Race 837 Return to the Source REGINALD MCKNIGHT / Get On the Bus 843 MAULANA KARENGA The African American Holiday of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture 846 MOLEFI KETE ASANTE Afrocentricity . 852 ERIC V COPAGE Kwanzaa: An African-American Celebration of Culture and Cooking 859 JAMES E. JACKSON The Journey of Martin Lutber King, Jr. 865 CORNEL WEST Race Matters 870 HERB BOYD The Million Man March 875 Epilogue STERLING BROWN Strong Men (Closing Stanzas) 882 Author Index 884.
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