Arna Bontemps

44 books

Black Thunder by Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

Black Thunder

Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

248 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
The Book of Negro Folklore by Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps

The Book of Negro Folklore

Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps

624 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction short stories informative inspiring tense medium-paced
Great Slave Narratives by Arna Bontemps

Great Slave Narratives

Arna Bontemps

331 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging slow-paced
The New Negro by Willis Richardson, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Elise Johnson McDougold, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Lewis Alexander, Kelly Miller, E. Franklin Frazier, J.A. Rogers, Angelina Weld Grimké, Rudolph Fisher, Eric Walrond, Richard Bruce Nugent, Melville J. Herskovits, Walter Francis White, Claude McKay, Helene Johnson, Montgomery Gregory, W.A. Domingo, Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Albert C. Barnes, Charles S. Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Arthur A. Schomburg, Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Jean Toomer, Alain LeRoy Locke, Robert Russa Moton, Cujo Lewis, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anne Spencer, Georgia Johnson

The New Negro

Willis Richardson, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Elise Johnson McDougold, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Lewis Alexander, Kelly Miller, E. Franklin Frazier, J.A. Rogers, Angelina Weld Grimké, Rudolph Fisher, Eric Walrond, Richard Bruce Nugent, Melville J. Herskovits, Walter Francis White, Claude McKay, Helene Johnson, Montgomery Gregory, W.A. Domingo, Arna Bontemps, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Albert C. Barnes, Charles S. Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Arthur A. Schomburg, Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Jean Toomer, Alain LeRoy Locke, Robert Russa Moton, Cujo Lewis, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anne Spencer, Georgia Johnson

452 pages • first pub 1925 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

Not Without Laughter

Langston Hughes

299 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

fiction classics historical emotional reflective medium-paced
Popo and Fifina by Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

Popo and Fifina

Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad, Arna Bontemps

128 pages • first pub 1932 (editions)

fiction childrens emotional medium-paced
Story of the Negro by Raymond Lufkin, Arna Bontemps

Story of the Negro

Raymond Lufkin, Arna Bontemps

239 pages • first pub 1948 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
American Dream: Texts & Contexts by Langston Hughes, Emma Lazarus, Martin Luther King Jr., Claude McKay, Arna Bontemps

American Dream: Texts & Contexts

Langston Hughes, Emma Lazarus, Martin Luther King Jr., Claude McKay, Arna Bontemps

missing page info • first pub 2009 (editions)

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
American Negro Poetry by Arna Bontemps

American Negro Poetry

Arna Bontemps

256 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

poetry race challenging reflective medium-paced
Anger, and Beyond: The Negro Writer in the United States by Herbert Hill
Anger, and Beyond: The Negro Writer in the United States
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Herbert Hill

Anger, and Beyond: The Negro Writer in the United States

Herbert Hill

227 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)