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Top 10 Best "African American Poems" Books



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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Nellie Y. McKay
Henry Louis Gates

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The Works of James M. Whitfield

Robert S. Levine
Ivy Wilson

African American Poems

The Works of James M. Whitfield

In this comprehensive volume of the collected writings of James Monroe Whitfield (1822-71), Robert S. Levine and Ivy G. Wilson restore this African American poet, abolitionist, and intellectual to his rightful place in the arts and politics of the nineteenth-century United States. Whitfield's works, including poems from his celebrated America and Other Poems (1853), were printed in influential journals and newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass's The North Star . A champion of the black emigration movement during the 1850s, Whitfield was embraced by African Americans as a black nationalist bard when he moved from his longtime home in Buffalo, New York, to California in the early 1860s. However, by the beginning of the twentieth century, his reputation had faded. For this volume, Levine and Wilson gathered and annotated all of Whitfield's extant writings, both poetry and prose, and many pieces are reprinted here for the first time since their original publication. In their thorough introduction, the editors situate Whitfield in relation to key debates on black nationalism in African A...

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#9

Families

Dorothy S. Strickland
John Ward
Michael R. Strickland

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#8

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

Michael S. Harper
Anthony Walton

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#7

Hold Christmas In Your Heart

Cheryl Willis Hudson
Cheryl Willis Hudson

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#6

Langston Hughes

Jodie A. Shull

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African Love Poems and Proverbs with Bookmark (Petites S.)

C. W. Leslau

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#4

The 100 Best African American Poems

Nikki Giovanni

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#3

I Am the Darker Brother

Arnold Adoff
Benny Andrews

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#2

A Rock Against the Wind

Lindsay Patterson

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Just for a Thrill

A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice.

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Just for a Thrill

Geoffrey Jacques

African American Poems
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Indivisible, With Liberty And Justice For All...

Richard Gloucester

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