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In James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, there is a Negro sexton who ('came last to the altar rail . . . by delaying, he took care that members of the congregation need never hesitate to re...
In James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, there is a Negro sexton who ('came last to the altar rail . . . by delaying, he took care that members of the congregation need never hesitate to receive the blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ because a cup· from which a Negro had drunk contained it." In other words, the sexton accepted his white fellow Christians' notion of himself as unclean, and acted accordingly. It is this acceptance of white America's values which degrade black people that causes black schoolchildren to cringe when they hear the words "black" or "Africa." Young Chicago poet Don L. Lee combats this tendency in his second book; Black Pride.
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- Creator
- by Don L. Lee ; introduction by Dudley Randall
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- Language
- English
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- [1st ed.]
- Detroit : Broadside Press, [1968]
- ©1968
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- 34 pages ; 21 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00440533, ocm00440533
- Also issued online.
- Introduction -- New Integrationist -- Cure All -- A Sign on a Vacant Lot -- Statistics -- Two Poems/ "Sketches from a Black-Nappy-Headed Poet" -- Pains with a Light Touch -- On the Discovery of Beautiful Black Women -- Beauty of It -- Only A Few Left -- Blood smiles -- Self-Hatred of Don L. Lee -- Only One -- In The Interest of Black Salvation -- Black Christ -- Primitive -- Negro -- Wall -- Message to a Black Soldier -- Contradiction in Essence -- A Poem for Black Minds -- Death Dance -- Traitor -- No More Marching