vi Contents
118 Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches
118 Free Joe and the Rest of the World
126 Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
127 The Goophered Grapevine
136 Po’ Sandy
143 The Wife of His Youth
151 The Passing of Grandison
162 Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
164 Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office Seeker
170 Lyrics of Lowly Life
170 Frederick Douglass
172 An Ante-Bellum Sermon
174 We Wear the Mask
175 When the Malindy Sings
176 Lyrics of the Hearthside
176 Sympathy
177 George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
178 ‘Tite Poulette
193 Grace King (1852-1932)
195 The Little Convent Girl
199 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
201 Sister Josepha
206 Ghost Dance Songs
207 Ghost Dance Songs
209 Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
211 Ode to Sequoyah
212 Hotgun on the Death of Yadeka Harjo
213 Fus Fixico’s Letter Number 44
215 John Milton Oskison (1874-1947)
216 The Problem of Old Harjo
221 Corridos
223 Kiansis I/Kansas I
225 Gregorio Cortez
230 Jacinto Treviño
233 El Hijo Desobediente/ The Disobedient Son
235 Recordando al Presidente/ Remembering the President
236 Corrido do César Chávez/ Ballad of César Chávez
238 María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895)
241 The Squatter and the Don
241 Chapter V. The Don in His Broad Acres