Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> American - African American & Black

In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th century, black poets celebrated race consciousness in propagandistic and protest poetry, while World War I helped engender the outpouring of African-American creativity known as the "Harlem Renaissance."
The present volume spans this wealth of material, ranging from the religious and moral...

In his 1918 autobiographical essay, "A Negro Poet Writes," Claude McKay (1889-1948), reveals much about the wellspring of his poetry.
"I am a black man, born in Jamaica, B.W.I., and have been living in America for the last years. It was the first time I had ever come face to face with such manifest, implacable hate of my race, and my feelings were indescribable ... Looking about me with bigger and clearer eyes I saw that this cruelty in different ways was going on all over the world. Whites were exploiting and oppressing whites even as they exploited and oppressed the yellows and...

With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), an important figure during and after the Harlem Renaissance, author of more than 25 novels, and longtime librarian at Fisk University, last revised this classic anthology just before his death, adding such crucial new voices as Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, and Bob Kaufman, among others.

This edition, issued in 1996, reprints the poems in Bontemps's revised volume along with updated biographical notes. Nearly seventy poets are represented,...

HIstory Is A Part Of Me (A Hip Hop Poem of African American Inventors)'s edutaining voice, is sure to help children understand the importance of seeing a need and filling a void. The highlighted inventions were created out of necessity by African Americans who figured out a more convenient way to live. With an activity page, crossword puzzle, and quiz to add to the poem of African American Inventors and their inventions, this lesson is not only a great tool for teaching Black History but it is also inclusive of the Common Core standards of comprehension/recall and creative...

Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto... blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Michelle Wallace, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Paula Giddings, Michelle Alexander, Roxane Gay, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. In her...

Award winning author Dr Kathryn Waddell Takara provides a compelling and intimate traveling stage through her pictorial poems that witness her impressions of the waking of a sleeping dragon - the New China, including the startling successes and disquieting obstacles and corruption. She likewise illuminates the reader of Chinese spiritual qualities, history, and their continuing reverence for knowledge, ancestors, and nature. Most strikingly, Takara experienced the historically raicially unfamiliar climate for many Black people who have sojoured in China.

Witness the power of God in one woman's life. Begin to experience that same power of God in your own. Your Savior is for you. Let it be a constant reminder that God is always with you, no matter where you are. Monique McGilberry is a writer and intercessor. Her mission is to spread the love of Jesus Christ to all people. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. In loving memory of my father, Alfred D. McGilberry, who told me I was God's own.