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African American Literature Anthology: Slavery, Liberation and Resistance

African American Literature Anthology: Slavery, Liberation and Resistance

Author(s): Kimberly Fain

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Copyright: 2019

Pages: 378

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African American Literature Anthology: Slavery, Liberation, & Resistance includes texts from various rhetoricians who worked as abolitionists, speakers, writers, activists, and/or publishers of dissident literature. They all employ their rhetorical influence to argue against the second-class citizenship status experienced by African Americans in the United States. By engaging in dissident discourse, they cause Americans of all walks of life to interrogate the promises owed by the language of the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and America’s institutions. Central to the issues presented in this African American literature anthology are themes of resistance to slavery, lynching, and state violence. Therefore, the authors in this text are antithetical to notions of white superiority and black inferiority. Instead, they argue for racial equality. And an equal opportunity for African Americans to pursue the American Dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Resistance both verbal and nonverbal is an essential response to social injustices experienced by marginalized peoples. Therefore, African American writers approach rhetorical expression with a measure of courage that dismisses controversy to advance progress. Instead, they express themselves at risk to their health, safety, and well-being to advance the cause of equality and fairness for all Americans. Various genres of literature are depicted in this anthology such as excerpts of poetry, speeches, non-fiction, fiction, and folklore. Many of the writers included in this anthology are well-versed in a multitude of genres of literary expression. Therefore, this anthology will compel many readers to seek out other works by the following authors included herein. These include Phillis Wheatley, Maria W. Stewart, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, T. Thomas Fortune, Ida B. Wells, Charles W. Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson.

About the Author
Introduction

Chapter 1: Phillis Wheatley
1.1 On Being Brought from Africa to America (1753)
Themes
1.2 On Virtue (1753)
Themes

Chapter 2: Maria W. Stewart
Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832)
Themes

Chapter 3: Henry Highland Garnet
From An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1843)
Preface
An Address
Themes

Chapter 4: Frederick Douglass
4.1 From Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
Chapter 1
Chapter 7
Chapter 11
Themes
4.2 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
4.3 What the Black Man Wants (1865)
Themes
4.4 From John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College (1881)
Introduction
Address
Themes

Chapter 5: T. Thomas Fortune
From Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South (1884)
Author’s Preface
Chapter 1: Black
Chapter 2: White
Chapter 3: The Negro and the Nation
Chapter 4: The Triumph of the Vanquished
Themes

Chapter 6: Ida B. Wells
From The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States (1895)
Preface: Hon. Frederick Douglass’s Letter
The Case Stated
Lynching Imbeciles: An Arkansas Butchery
Lynching of Innocent Men: Lynched on Account of Relationship
Lynched for Anything or Nothing: Lynched for Wife Beating
History of Some Cases of Rape
The Crusade Justified: Appeal from America to the World
Themes

Chapter 7: Charles W. Chesnutt
From Frederick Douglass: A Biography (1899)
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
Themes

Chapter 8: W. E. B. Du Bois
8.1 The Song of Smoke (1907)
Themes
8.2. From The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
The Forethought
I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
II. Of the Dawn of Freedom
III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Themes

Chapter 9: Paul Laurence Dunbar
9.1 From The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904)
The Lynching of Jube Benson (1904)
Themes
9.2 Black Samson of Brandywine (1903)
Themes
9.3 The Colored Soldiers (1895)
Themes
9.4 Frederick Douglass (1913)
Themes
9.5 We Wear the Mask (1895)
Themes

Chapter 10: Claude Mckay
10.1 America (1921)
10.2 The Lynching (1922)
10.3 If We Must Die (1919)
10.4 To the White Fiends (1919)
10.5 The Harlem Dancer (1922)
10.6 Harlem Shadows (1918)
Themes

Chapter 11: James Weldon Johnson
11.1 From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
Preface
I
II
III
Themes
11.2 The Creation (1922)
11.3 The White Witch (1922)
11.4 Brothers (1922)
11.5 Fifty Years (1863-1913) (1917)
Themes

Kimberly Fain
Kimberly Fain is a Visiting Professor at Texas Southern University and a licensed attorney. Fain holds a JD from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, an MA from Texas Southern University, and a BA degree from Texas A&M University at College Station. Currently, she’s a Technical Communication and Rhetoric Doctoral student at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on African American literature, studies and rhetoric, feminist studies, media studies, social justice, visual rhetoric, composition, and technical writing. Fain has received writing and teaching awards from organizations and universities, namely TSU’s COLABS English Outstanding Visiting Professor Award, TSU’s COLABS English Outstanding Alumni Award, TTU’s Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellowship, James Weldon Johnson Fellowship, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory/Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Scholarly Award, and HTI Writing Fellowship: Houston Teachers Institute at University of Houston’s Honor College. Her publications include books, book reviews, essays, and chapters in various journals and presses, such as Buffalo Journal of Gender, JSTOR Daily, Law & Social Policy, McFarland, Modern Fiction Studies, National Book Review, Peter Lang, Ploughshares, Scarecrow, and Southern Studies. Lastly, Fain is the Associate Editor of World Literary Review and has published two books: Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies (Praeger, 2015), and Colson Whitehead: The Post-racial Voice of Contemporary Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).

New Publication Now Available!

African American Literature Anthology: Slavery, Liberation, & Resistance includes texts from various rhetoricians who worked as abolitionists, speakers, writers, activists, and/or publishers of dissident literature. They all employ their rhetorical influence to argue against the second-class citizenship status experienced by African Americans in the United States. By engaging in dissident discourse, they cause Americans of all walks of life to interrogate the promises owed by the language of the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and America’s institutions. Central to the issues presented in this African American literature anthology are themes of resistance to slavery, lynching, and state violence. Therefore, the authors in this text are antithetical to notions of white superiority and black inferiority. Instead, they argue for racial equality. And an equal opportunity for African Americans to pursue the American Dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Resistance both verbal and nonverbal is an essential response to social injustices experienced by marginalized peoples. Therefore, African American writers approach rhetorical expression with a measure of courage that dismisses controversy to advance progress. Instead, they express themselves at risk to their health, safety, and well-being to advance the cause of equality and fairness for all Americans. Various genres of literature are depicted in this anthology such as excerpts of poetry, speeches, non-fiction, fiction, and folklore. Many of the writers included in this anthology are well-versed in a multitude of genres of literary expression. Therefore, this anthology will compel many readers to seek out other works by the following authors included herein. These include Phillis Wheatley, Maria W. Stewart, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, T. Thomas Fortune, Ida B. Wells, Charles W. Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson.

About the Author
Introduction

Chapter 1: Phillis Wheatley
1.1 On Being Brought from Africa to America (1753)
Themes
1.2 On Virtue (1753)
Themes

Chapter 2: Maria W. Stewart
Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832)
Themes

Chapter 3: Henry Highland Garnet
From An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America (1843)
Preface
An Address
Themes

Chapter 4: Frederick Douglass
4.1 From Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, An American Slave (1845)
Chapter 1
Chapter 7
Chapter 11
Themes
4.2 What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
4.3 What the Black Man Wants (1865)
Themes
4.4 From John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College (1881)
Introduction
Address
Themes

Chapter 5: T. Thomas Fortune
From Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South (1884)
Author’s Preface
Chapter 1: Black
Chapter 2: White
Chapter 3: The Negro and the Nation
Chapter 4: The Triumph of the Vanquished
Themes

Chapter 6: Ida B. Wells
From The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States (1895)
Preface: Hon. Frederick Douglass’s Letter
The Case Stated
Lynching Imbeciles: An Arkansas Butchery
Lynching of Innocent Men: Lynched on Account of Relationship
Lynched for Anything or Nothing: Lynched for Wife Beating
History of Some Cases of Rape
The Crusade Justified: Appeal from America to the World
Themes

Chapter 7: Charles W. Chesnutt
From Frederick Douglass: A Biography (1899)
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
Themes

Chapter 8: W. E. B. Du Bois
8.1 The Song of Smoke (1907)
Themes
8.2. From The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
The Forethought
I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
II. Of the Dawn of Freedom
III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
Themes

Chapter 9: Paul Laurence Dunbar
9.1 From The Heart of Happy Hollow (1904)
The Lynching of Jube Benson (1904)
Themes
9.2 Black Samson of Brandywine (1903)
Themes
9.3 The Colored Soldiers (1895)
Themes
9.4 Frederick Douglass (1913)
Themes
9.5 We Wear the Mask (1895)
Themes

Chapter 10: Claude Mckay
10.1 America (1921)
10.2 The Lynching (1922)
10.3 If We Must Die (1919)
10.4 To the White Fiends (1919)
10.5 The Harlem Dancer (1922)
10.6 Harlem Shadows (1918)
Themes

Chapter 11: James Weldon Johnson
11.1 From The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
Preface
I
II
III
Themes
11.2 The Creation (1922)
11.3 The White Witch (1922)
11.4 Brothers (1922)
11.5 Fifty Years (1863-1913) (1917)
Themes

Kimberly Fain
Kimberly Fain
Kimberly Fain is a Visiting Professor at Texas Southern University and a licensed attorney. Fain holds a JD from Thurgood Marshall School of Law, an MA from Texas Southern University, and a BA degree from Texas A&M University at College Station. Currently, she’s a Technical Communication and Rhetoric Doctoral student at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on African American literature, studies and rhetoric, feminist studies, media studies, social justice, visual rhetoric, composition, and technical writing. Fain has received writing and teaching awards from organizations and universities, namely TSU’s COLABS English Outstanding Visiting Professor Award, TSU’s COLABS English Outstanding Alumni Award, TTU’s Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellowship, James Weldon Johnson Fellowship, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory/Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Scholarly Award, and HTI Writing Fellowship: Houston Teachers Institute at University of Houston’s Honor College. Her publications include books, book reviews, essays, and chapters in various journals and presses, such as Buffalo Journal of Gender, JSTOR Daily, Law & Social Policy, McFarland, Modern Fiction Studies, National Book Review, Peter Lang, Ploughshares, Scarecrow, and Southern Studies. Lastly, Fain is the Associate Editor of World Literary Review and has published two books: Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies (Praeger, 2015), and Colson Whitehead: The Post-racial Voice of Contemporary Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).