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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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1222 Kearny Street, NE
Washington, D.C.
April 20, 1939
Dear Walter:
I don't know whether she has written you yet,
but Mrs. Florence Murray Collins is working on the cook-book
material which you spoke to me about. She has already turned up
some most interesting stuff and is enthusiastic about the
search.
I am back on the project at long last, i.e.,
back on the pay-roll. I've been beset for advisory work for a
long time.
One of the crucial matters facing me upon my
return is the continued jeopardy of the Arts projects. You
rallied the support of the NAACP to the project before. I am
writing to ask you to rally support again.
In Congress a bill is to be introduced aimed
particularly at the white collar projects, localizing them in
the States and getting them away from centralized control. I
know that you realize what this would mean in relationship, let
us say, to the the Writers' project in southern States. We
already have too few, but once localized in the States, we would
have no Negro writers on the Project at all. (And from what I
can gather, not too many white.)
I am asking then, that you urge your
secretaries to have the members of the association write to
their Congressmen and Senators urging opposition to any bill
aiming to curtail Arts projects or to localize them or to
reorganize them.
I suppose you read of my being
"red-baited" because I mentioned miscegenation in
connection with the founding fathers. Well, I'm sitting tight.
That's one aspect of American history of which I welcome a
thorough-going investigation.
Love to family. I'll be in New York in may.
the book is not prospering. They like it; they believe they
can't sell it; they won't take it. I like it; believe they can
sell it; but can't make them take it (even if I would). Luck to
you and thanks.
Sincerely,
(Official title: The Flying Dutchman.)
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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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Weep Not, Child
By
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This is
a powerful, moving story that details the
effects of the infamous Mau Mau war, the
African nationalist revolt against colonial
oppression in Kenya, on the lives of
ordinary men and women, and on one family in
particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau,
stand on a rubbish heap and look into their
futures. Njoroge is excited; his family has
decided that he will attend school, while
Kamau will train to be a carpenter. Together
they will serve their country—the
teacher and the craftsman. But this is Kenya
and the times are against them. In the
forests, the Mau Mau is waging war against
the white government, and the two brothers
and their family need to decide where their
loyalties lie. For the practical Kamau the
choice is simple, but for Njoroge the
scholar, the dream of progress through
learning is a hard one to give up.—Penguin
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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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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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