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Contents Acknowledgments Prologue-A Reader's Place 1. Reading and Desire in a Room of Their Own Jessie Fauset Marita Golden 2. A Negro Library W.E.B. Du Bois Ralph Ellison Richard Wright 3. On Censorship and Tarzan John Hope Franklin Sonia Sanchez Audre Lorde 4. A Prison Library Angela Davis Malcolm X Eldridge Cleaver 5. The Anchor Bar Maya Angelou James Baldwin 6. A Proud Chestnut James Weldon Johnson Nikki Giovanni 7. The Children's Room Langston Hughes Pauli Murray 8. My Mother's Singing C. Eric Lincoln Leon Forrest 9. Reading Race Henry Louis Gates Michael Eric Dyson 10. The Card Catalog Zora Neale Hurston J. Saunders Redding Octavia Butler Samuel Delany Epilogue-Pondering Color Author Profiles Notes Sources Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
African Americans -- Books and reading.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans and libraries.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.