Description: I. UNDERSTANDING THE WRITING PROCESS. 1. Planning Writing. 2. Writing the First Draft. 3. Revising and Editing. II. THEMATIC CONTENTS. 4. Slavery. How Buck Won His Freedom (Anonymous). Bury Me in a Free Land, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. The Slave Mistress, Linda Brent. How a Slave Was Made a Man, Frederick Douglass. Student Essay: Fruits of Labor, Fruits of Sorrow, Fruits of Love, Hakimah Alim Gregory. 5. African American Women. The Sky Is Gray, Ernest J. Gaines. I Am a Black Woman, Mari Evans. Those "Super Strong" Black Women, Tansey Thomas. Slavery and Womanhood, Angela Y. Davis. Student Essay: Islam and African American Women, Vernell Mundadi. 6. African American Men. A Fling on the Track, Bill Cosby. Blacks in Vietnam, Robert Mullen. Black Men and Public Space, Brent Staples. Respect on the Streets, Elijah Anderson. Student Essay: Are Black Males Becoming an Endangered Species?, Dwayne Griffin. 7. Childhood/Adolescence/Growing Up. Gorilla, My Love, Toni Cade Bambara. Alice, Paulette Childress White. Living Jim Crow, Richard Wright. Marguerite''s Graduation, Maya Angelou. Student Essay: Stone City, Jerome Mason. 8. Family. Mother to Son, Langston Hughes. Such a Paradise That I Lived, Jamaica Kincaid. Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden. Integrated Housing: An Exploded Dream? Lorraine Hansberry. Student Essay: The Positive Environment in Black Female-Headed Families, Camille Gray. 9. Male-Female Relationships. Like a Winding Sheet, Ann Petry. A Summer Tragedy, Arna Bontemps. Just Don''t Never Give Up on Love, Sonia Sanchez. Tea Cake and Janie, Zora Neale Hurston. Student Essay: Positive Affirmations Among African American Men and Women, Jason Orr. 10. Civil Rights. Working For SNCC, David Rubell. Emmett Till Is Dead, Anne Moody. Howard University: A Rude Awakening, Cleveland Sellers. I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Essay: The Criminal Justice System and Poor Blacks, Marshall Mercy. 11. Freedom/Equality/Unity/Protest. Freedom, Joyce M. Jarrett. We Wear the Mask, Paul Laurence Dunbar. If We Must Die, Claude McKay. The Rap on Frederick Douglass, Roger Guenvuer Smith. Student Essay: Affirmative Action: The Controversial Topic, James Mitchener. 12. Arts/Science/Media. Shining Light of a Poet and Pioneer, Earl Caldwell. Crossover Dreams and Racial Realities, William Barlow. TV''s Black World, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Slave Inventor, Portia James. Student Essay: The Eugenics Sterilization Movement, Karie Wermeling. 13. Religion/Church. Salvation, Langston Hughes. The Creation, James Weldon Johnson. The Dynamic Tension in the Black Church, Michael A. Battle, Sr. The Stumbling Block, Paul Laurence Dunbar. Student Essay: The Tradition of IFA, Karl Nichols. 14. Heritage/Identity. To Know One''s History Is to Know Oneself, John Henrik Clarke. Kunta Kinte Is Born, Alex Haley. To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals, Gwendolyn Brooks. My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land, Lance Jeffers. Student Essay: Kwanzaa: An African American Holiday, William Weir. 15. Reading/Writing/Education. Discovering the Writer in Me, Terry McMillan. Send Your Children to the Libraries, Arthur Ashe. My Self-Education, Malcolm X. Who I Am and How I Write, Mari Evans. Student Essay: Public Schools for African American Males: Are They Necessary? Byron T. Thompson. 16. Political Philosophies. Booker T. and W.E.B., Dudley Randall. Atlanta Exposition Address, Booker T. Washington. Garvey Speaks at Madison Square Garden, Marcus Garvey. Becoming a Republican, Tony Brown. Student Essay: The Black Panther Party, Khadijah A. Mayo. 17. Black Dialect/Language. Parapoetics, Eugene Redmond. African American Youth Resist Standard English, Felicia R. Lee. BlackTalk, Geneva Smitherman. If Black English Isn''t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?, James Baldwin. Student Essay: The Question of Name: African or African American?, Cyril Austin Greene. 18. Folklore. I Get Born, Zora Neale Hurston. The Ghost of Orion, John Edgar Wideman. Strange Things of 1923, Toni Morrison. Student Essay: Folktales: An African American Treasure, Elizabeth Mitchell. 19. Racism/Discrimination. Incident, Countee Cullen. A Difference of Opinion, Toni Morrison. For My People, Margaret Walker. My Life in Black And White, Pauli Murray. Student Essay: Poverty and Education, Melinda Elaine Edmond. 20. Interracial Relationships. Becky, Jean Toomer. Betrayal? Why Black Men Date White Women, Bebe Moore Campbell. Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin. What''s American About America? Ishmael Reed. Student Essay: Society Rejects Mixed Children, Mia Elliott. 21. Intraracial Prejudice. If You''re Light and Have Long Hair, Gwendolyn Brooks. The Revolt of the Evil Fairies, Ted Poston. Debut, Kristin Hunter. True Love Lost and Found, Charles W. Chesnutt. Student Essay: Black Is Beautiful - All Shades, Andrea Providence Robinson. 22. SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS. Letter to Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Banneker. Black Comedy, White Reality, Jannette Dates. Requiem Before Revival, Gwendolyn Brooks. Without Dad, Bebe Moore Campbell. Student Essay: Female Genital Mutilation and Castration, Anika Yetunde.

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