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Books by Sterling Brown
Southern Road /
The Negro Caravan /
The Collected Poems of Sterling Brown /
The Negro in American Fiction; Negro Poetry and Drama
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Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems
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Books about Sterling Brown
Joanne,Gabbin.
Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (1994)
John Edgar Tidwell,
Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South (2007)
Charles Rowell.
Callaloo's Sterling A. Brown: Special Issue (1998)
Mark A. Sanders.
Afro-Modernist Aesthetics & the Poetry of Sterling Brown
(1999)
Mark A. Sanders.
A Son's Return: Selected Essays of Sterling Brown (1996)
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Bio-Sketch
Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989), author, critic,
professor, Poet Laureate for Washington, DC, and "the Dean of American
Poets," was born on Howard University's campus at the site where Cook Hall
Dormitory now stands, in a house on Sixth and Fairmount in
Washington, DC, Brown was the last of six children born to Reverend Sterling
Nelson and Adelaid Allen Brown. He grew up on the campus of Howard University,
where his father taught in the School of Religion. He was educated in the District of Columbia Public Schools
and received his Bachelor's degree from Williams College (Williamstown, MA) in
1922 with honors as a Phi Beta Kappa. Brown entered graduate school and received
his Master's degree from Harvard University in 1923.
He taught at Virginia Seminary in Lynchburg,
Virginia; Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee; and Lincoln
University in Missouri. He was a visiting lecturer at Atlanta
University, New York University and Vassar College.
Sterling Brown joined the Howard University faculty in 1929 and
remained associated with Howard for almost sixty years.
His poem "Strong Men," from his book entitled Southern Road
(1931), celebrates the enduring spirit of Black people in the
face of racial oppression and political exploitation. The
poem captures the horrors of the Middle Passage and reflects the
"idea of Black stoicism," Brown explains in
Southern Road.
According to literary critic Joanne V. Gabbin, "During the 1930s
and 1940s, Brown's studies of the folk experience and culture
were the fullest of any in the field."
In his book,
The Negro in
American Fiction (1937), Brown shows parallels of how
treatment of an oppressed group in literature reflects its
treatment in life. His pioneering work brought recognition to
African-American literature and folklore. Primary Works
Southern Road , 1932; "Negro Characters as Seen by White
Authors," 1933; Negro Poetry and Drama, 1938; The Negro
in American Fiction, 1938 ( PS374 N4 B7);
The Negro Caravan (an anthology, co edited with Arthur P. Davis and Ulysses Lee), 1941 (
PS508.N3 B75);
The Collected Poems of Sterling Brown
, 1980.
Brown, Sterling A. "A Century of Negro Portraiture in American
Literature." Massachusetts Review 7 (1966): 73-96.
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The Negro in American Fiction; Negro Poetry and Drama.
NY: Arno, 1969.
- - -. "Arna Bontemps: Co-Worker, Comrade." Black World
22.1 (1973): 1, 11,91-97.
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Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems.
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1975. PS3503 R833 L3
- - -. "A Son's Return 'Oh, Didn't He Ramble'."
Chant of
Saints A Gathering of Afro American Literature, Art, and Scholarship.
Eds. Michael Harper and others. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979.
- - -. "Negro Character as Seen by White Authors." Callaloo
5.1-2 (Feb-May 1982): 55-89.
- - -. "On Dialect Usage."
The Slave's Narrative.
Eds. Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Oxford: Oxford UP,
1985.
- - -. "Our Literary Audience ."
Within the Circle: An
Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem
Renaissance to the Present. Ed. Angelyn Mitchell. Durham, NC Duke
UP, 1994. 69-78.
Joanne,Gabbin.
Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (1994)
Southern Road
and the "New Negro Renaissance"
Sterling Brown Papers.
Manuscript Division,
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC). Howard University
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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
By
Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns
Marshall Stearns, who
taught college English, specializing in Chaucer, loved jazz,
thought about jazz, taught about jazz, wrote about jazz,
and, as the foundation of all this, took jazz seriously. His
The Story of Jazz became a standard work in its
field, and he then went on to document the dancing that went
with the music. With his wife Jean, he spent seven years
doing research, not only in libraries but among the living
archives of dancers' memories. They conducted interviews
with every jazz dancer they could find, at a time when jazz
dancers seemed to be members of an endangered species.
Now, thanks to Da Capo
Press,
Jazz Dance is again available, as a paperback
($16.95), augmented with a new foreword and afterword by
Brenda Bufalino, artistic director of the American Tap Dance
Orchestra.Although the book takes its subject only
up to 1966—when
Marshall Stearns died of a heart attack shortly after
the manuscript was completed—it's
still essential reading for anyone interested in jazz,
in dance, and in the American musical theater.—FindArticles
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper's
wife, left Mississippi for Milwaukee in
1937, after her cousin was falsely accused
of stealing a white man's turkeys and was
almost beaten to death. In 1945, George
Swanson Starling, a citrus picker, fled
Florida for Harlem after learning of the
grove owners' plans to give him a "necktie
party" (a lynching). Robert Joseph Pershing
Foster made his trek from Louisiana to
California in 1953, embittered by "the
absurdity that he was doing surgery for the
United States Army and couldn't operate in
his own home town." Anchored to these three
stories is Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Wilkerson's magnificent, extensively
researched study of the "great migration,"
the exodus of six million black Southerners
out of the terror of Jim Crow to an
"uncertain existence" in the North and
Midwest. Wilkerson deftly incorporates
sociological and historical studies into the
novelistic narratives of Gladney, Starling,
and Pershing settling in new lands, building
anew, and often finding that they have not
left racism behind. The drama, poignancy,
and romance of a classic immigrant saga
pervade this book, hold the reader in its
grasp, and resonate long after the reading
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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