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Race: Black Identity

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Poems by African American Authors dealing with race-consciousness -- engagement with what it means to be Black.

Contents of this tag:

  1. A Note on Historical Language: 'Negro,' 'Colored,' 'Black,' and 'African American'
  2. Langston Hughes, "Dream Variation" (1924)
  3. Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  4. Zora Neale Hurston, "The First One" (Full text of one-act play) (1927)
  5. Mary Ashe Lee, "Afmerica" (1894 version)
  6. Josephine Heard, "The Black Samson" (1890)
  7. Mary Ashe Lee, "Afmerica" (1886 version)
  8. Anne Spencer, "White Things" (1923)
  9. John Wesley Work (J.W. Work), "It's Great To Be A Problem" (1920)
  10. Ethel Caution-Davis (Ethel M. Caution), "A Man" (1916)
  11. Walter Everette Hawkins, "Ode to Ethiopia" (1909)
  12. T. Thomas Fortune, “Who Are We? Afro-Americans, Colored People, or Negroes?” (essay) (1906)
  13. Katherine D. Tillman, "Color" (1902)