Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-379).
On Folk Culture: Negro Folk Expression / Sterling A. Brown -- American Negro Folk Literature / Arthur Hall Fauset -- American Negro Folklore / J. Mason Brewer -- Introduction to The Book of Negro Folklore / Arna Bontemps -- Of the Sorrow Songs / W.E.B. DuBois -- The Negro Spirituals / Alain Locke -- On Poetry: The Forerunners / J. Saunders Redding -- Negro Poets and Their Poetry / Wallace Thurman -- Negro Poets, Then and Now / New Poets / Margaret Walker -- The Future of Negro Poetry: A Challenge for Critics / James A. Emanuel -- Black Poetry / Dudley Randall -- Who Speaks Negro? / Sarah Webster Fabio -- On Drama: The Drama of Negro Life / Montgomery Gregory -- Black Theater / Toni Cade -- The So-called Western Avant-garde Drama / Ed Bullins