Arna Bontemps

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

The New Negro

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

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 Arnold Rampersad, Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps

Popo and Fifina

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

American Dream: Texts & Contexts

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

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)