Displaying 1 of 1 2018 Title: Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing Edition: First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition. Format: Book Publisher, Date: New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2018. Description: xxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm Summary: "Spanning more than 250 years, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Roxane Gay in a masterly collection of twenty-five moving essays on the power of the written word"--Dust jacket flap. Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American literature -- History and criticism. African Americans -- Intellectual life. African Americans -- Books and reading -- History. African Americans -- Social conditions -- History. African Americans in literature. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC author. Palatine (Ill.) -- BIPOC subject. Palatine (Ill.) -- Own voices. Genre: Essays. Other Author: Oliver, Stephanie Stokes, editor. Giovanni, Nikki, writer of foreword. Contents: Our first stories / Nikki Giovanni -- Reading matters / Stephanie Stokes Oliver -- Suspected of having a book / Frederick Douglass ; Nine years deprived of a sheet of paper / Solomon Northup ; A whole race begins to read / Booker T. Washington ; The Negro in literature and art / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Books and things / Zora Neale Hurston ; Poetry is practical / Langston Hughes ; The business of the writer / James Baldwin ; Turning point / Malcolm X ; Lessons in living / Maya Angelou ; Morehouse College / Martin Luther King Jr. ; The site of memory / Toni Morrison ; Where are the people of color in children's books? / Walter Dean Myers ; Reading for revolution / Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture] ; Twenty-one / Alice Walker ; A temporary library in a small place / Jamaica Kincaid ; What is an African American classic? / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; New Black scribe / Terry McMillan -- MFA vs. POC / Junot Díaz ; Create dangerously / Edwidge Danticat ; How to write / Colson Whitehead ; From Jamaica to Minnesota to myself / Marlon James ; I once was Miss America / Roxane Gay ; The mecca / Ta-Nehisi Coates ; The danger of the single story / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- What books mean to me / President Barack Obama : an interview with Michiko Kakutani. ISBN 9781501154287 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
