Brawley surveys Black American achievement in writing and the arts, judged, he insists, by absolute standards. Chapters follow Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois and William Stanley Braithwaite, then turn to other writers, the stage, music and the visual arts.
A pioneering survey from 1918 that helped set the canon of African American literature and remains a valuable record. Download the free EPUB.