Black Like Us

by Devon Carbado

  Countee Cullen, excerpt from One Way to Heaven. © 1932 by Harper & Bros. Reprinted by permission of Thompson & Thompson, Associates.

  Samuel R. Delany, “Aye, and Gomorrah….” © 1967 by Samuel R. Delany. Reprinted by permission of Henry Morrison. Samuel R. Delany photograph reprinted by permission of Robert Giard.

  Alexis DeVeaux, “Bird of Paradise.” © 1992 by Alexis DeVeaux.

  Melvin Dixon, excerpt from Vanishing Rooms. © 1991 by the author. Reprinted by permission of Cleis Press. Melvin Dixon photograph reprinted by permission of Robert Giard.

  Owen Dodson, excerpt from Boy at the Window. © 1951 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Owen Dodson photograph reprinted by permission of James V. Hatch.

  Alice Dunbar-Nelson photograph reprinted by permission of Alice Dunbar Papers, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

  Larry Duplechan, excerpt from Captain Swing. © 1993 by Alyson Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Thomas Glave, Whose Song? © 2000 by City Lights Publishers. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books. Thomas Glave photograph reprinted by permission of Thomas Glave. Thomas Glave photograph by Becket Logan.

  Jewelle Gomez, excerpt from The Gilda Stories. © 1991 by Firebrand Books. Reprinted by permission of Firebrand Books. Jewelle Gomez photograph reprinted by permission of Tee Corinne.

  Rosa Guy, excerpt from Ruby. © 1976 by Dell Publishing. Reprinted by permission of Ellen Levine Literary Agency, Inc.

  James Earl Hardy, excerpt from B-Boy Blues. © 1994 by Alyson Books. Reprinted by permission of Alyson Publications, Inc.

  E. Lynn Harris, excerpt from Invisible Life. © 1991 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. E. Lynn Harris photograph reprinted by permission of E. Lynn Harris. Photograph by Matthew Jordan Smith.

  Langston Hughes, “Blessed Assurance.” © 1963 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. Langston Hughes photograph reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

  Brian Keith Jackson, excerpt from Walking Through Mirrors. © 1998 by Pocket Books. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. © 1992 by Little, Brown and Co. (U.K.). Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Co. (U.K.).

  Helen Elaine Lee, excerpt from The Serpent’s Gift. © 1994 by Atheneum. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  Audre Lorde, excerpt from Zami. © 1982 by The Crossing Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of The Crossing Press, Inc. Audre Lorde photograph reprinted by permission of Tee Corinne.

  Richard Bruce Nugent, “Smoke, Lillies, and Jade” reprinted by permission of Thomas H. Wirth.

  Canaan Parker, excerpt from The Color of Trees. © 1992 by Alyson Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  Darieck Scott, excerpt from Traitor to the Race. © 1995 by Dutton. Reprinted by permission of the author.

  April Sinclair, excerpt from Coffee Will Make You Black. © 1994 by Hyperion. Reprinted by permission of Hyperion.

  Wallace Thurman photograph reprinted by permission of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

  Alice Walker, “This Is How It Happened.” © 2000 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

  Jacqueline Woodson, excerpt from From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun. © 1995 by Sheedy Literary Agency. Reprinted by permission of Sheedy Literary Agency. Jacqueline Woodson photograph reprinted by permission of Jacqueline Woodson.

  Bil Wright, excerpt from Sunday You Learn How to Box. © 2000 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  Shay Youngblood, excerpt from Soul Kiss. © 1997 by Shay Youngblood. Reprinted by permission of Putnam Berkley, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

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  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  The following are titles we felt would be of interest to readers of Black Like Us. These include books by and about African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual authors, as well as books that contribute to an understanding of African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual life. Where collections include the writings of authors featured in Black Like Us, the author’s name is noted at the end of the entry. Some books listed may also include the work of other African American lesbian, gay, and bisexual authors who are not featured in Black Like Us; those names will be found in each of those books’ table of contents rather than in this bibliography.

  The bibliography is organized according to year of publication, with titles grouped into three sections, corresponding to the three eras covered in this volume: The Harlem Renaissance 1900–1950; The Protest Era 1950–1980; Coming Out Black, Like Us 1980–2000; and is further gathered into genres: anthologies, drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

  1900–1950: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

  ANTHOLOGIES

  Multiauthor Collections

  Beam, Joseph, ed., In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology (Alyson, 1986); includes Richard Bruce Nugent.

  Bontemps, Arna, ed., American Negro Poetry (Hill, 1963); includes Countee Cullen and Angelina Weld Grimké.

  ———, ed., The Harlem Renaissance Remembered (Dutton, 1972).

  Boyd, Herb, and Robert Allen, eds., Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (Ballantine, 1995); includes Countee Cullen and Wallace Thurman.

  Cullen, Countee, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (Harper, 1927); includes Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angelina Weld Grimké, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent. DeCosta-Willis, Miriam, Roseann Bell, and Reginald Martin, eds., Erotique Noire/ Black Erotica (Anchor, 1992); includes .Richard Bruce Nugent. Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, ed., Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (Douglass, 1914).

  ———, ed., The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer (Nichols, 1920).

  Guy-Sheftall, Beverly, ed., Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought (New Press, 1995); includes Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Hatch, James V., and Ted Shine, eds., Black Theater U.S.A.: Forty-five Plays by Black Americans, 1847–1974 (Free Press, 1974); includes Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Angelina Weld Grimké.

  Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps, eds., The Poetry of the Negro (Doubleday, 1949); includes Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angelina Weld Grimké, and Langston Hughes.

  Hughes, Langston, The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers (Little, 1967); includes Langston Hughes.

  Johnson, Charles S., ed., Ebony and Topaz: A Collection (National Urban League, 1927); includes Countee Cullen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Angelina Weld Grimké, and Langston Hughes.

  Kerlin, Robert T., ed., Negro Poets and Their Poems (Associated, 1923); includes Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Angelina Weld Grimké.

  Lewis, David Levering, ed., The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Penguin, 1994); includes Countee Cullen, Angelina Weld Grimké, Langston Hughes, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Wallace Thurman. Locke, Alain, ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation (Boni, 1925); includes Countee

  Locke, Alain, ed., The New Negro: An Interpretation (Boni, 1925); includes Countee Cullen, Angelina Weld Grimké, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent.

  Roses, Lorraine Elena, and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph, eds., Harlem’s Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900–1950 (Harvard UP, 1996); includes Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

  Ruff, Shawn Stewart, ed., Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African American Writers (Holt, 1996); includes Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Wallace Thurman.

  Smith, Michael J., ed., Black Men/White Men: A Gay Anthology (Gay Sunshine, 1983); includes Langston Hughes and Richard Bruce Nugent. Thurman, Wallace, ed., Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to Young Negro Artists (self-published, 1926); includes Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Wallace Thurman.

  Single Author Collections

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bsp; Berry, Faith, ed., The Uncollected Social Protest Writings of Langston Hughes (Lawrence Hill, 1973).

  Cooper, Wayne F., ed., The Dialectic Poetry of Claude McKay (Books for Libraries, 1972).

  ———, ed., The Passion of Claude McKay: Selected Poetry and Prose (Shocken, 1972). Cullen, Countee, My Lives and How I Lost Them (Harper, 1942).

  ———, On These I Stand: An Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen (Harper, 1947).

  Dewey, John, ed., The Selected Poems of Claude McKay (Bookman, 1953).

  Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, Violets and Other Tales (Monthly Review, 1895).

  ———, The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (Dodd, 1899).

  Early, Gerald, ed., My Soul’s High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance (Doubleday, 1991).

  Harper, Akiba Sullivan, Langston Hughes: Short Stories (Hill, 1996).

  Herron, Carolivia, ed., Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimké (Oxford UP, 1991).

  Hopkins, Lee Bennett, ed., Don’t You Turn Back (Knopf, 1969).

  Hughes, Langston, Simple Speaks His Mind (Knopf, 1934).

  ———, The Ways of White Folks (Knopf, 1934).

  ———, Laughing to Keep from Crying (Holt, 1952).

  ———, Simple Takes a Wife (Simon, 1953).

  ———, Simple Stakes a Claim (Rinehart, 1957).

  ———, The Langston Hughes Reader: The Selected Writings of Langston Hughes (Braziller, 1958).

  ———, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (Knopf, 1959).

  ———, The Best of Simple (Hill, 1961).

  ———, Five Plays by Langston Hughes (Indiana UP, 1963).

  ———, Something Common and Other Stories (Hill, 1963).

  ———, Simple’s Uncle Sam (Hill, 1965).

  Hull, Gloria T., ed., The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Oxford UP, 1988).

  McKay, Claude, Gingertown (Harper, 1932).

  ———, Trial by Lynching (U of Mysore, 1977).

  ———, My Green Hills of Jamaica (Heinemann, 1979).

  ———, The Negroes in America (Kennikat, 1979).

  Rampersad, Arnold, ed., The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage, 1994).

  Walker, Alice, ed., I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (Feminist, 1979).

  DRAMA

  Cullen, Countee, One Way to Heaven, 1932.

  Cullen, Countee, and Arna Bontemps, St. Louis Woman, 1946.

  Cullen, Countee, and Larry Hamilton, Heaven’s My Home, 1935.

  Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, Mine Eyes Have Seen, 1918.

  Grimké, Angelina Weld, Rachel: A Play in Three Acts, 1920.

  Hughes, Langston, and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, 1930.

  Hughes, Langston, Mulatto, 1935.

  ———, Emperor of Haiti, 1936.

  ———, Little Ham, 1936.

  Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps, When the Jack Hollers, 1936.

  Hughes, Langston, Joy to My Soul, 1937.

  ———, Soul Gone Home, 1937.

  ———, Don’t You Want to Be Free?, 1938.

  ———, The E-Fuehrer Jones, 1938.

  ———, Front Porch, 1938.

  ———, Limitations of Life, 1938.

  ———, Little Eva’s End, 1938.

  ———, libretto, The Organizer, music by James P. Johnson, 1939.

  ———, The Sun Do Move, 1942.

  ———, For This We Fight, 1943.

  ———, lyrics, Street Scene, book by Elmer Rice, music by Kurt Weil, 1947.

  ———, libretto, Troubled Island, music by Grant Still, 1949.

  ———, libretto, The Barrier, music by Jan Meyerowitz, 1950.

  ———, lyrics, Just Around the Corner, 1951.

  ———, libretto, The Glory Round His Head, 1953.

  ———, libretto, Esther, music by Jan Meyerowitz, 1957.

  ———, Simply Heavenly, 1957.

  ———, libretto, The Ballad of the Brown King, music by Margaret Bonds, 1960.

  ———, Black Nativity, 1961.

  ———, Gospel Glow, 1962.

  ———, libretto, Let Us Remember Him, music by David Amram, 1963.

  ———, Tambourines to Glory, 1963.

  ———, Jericho-Jim Crow, 1964.

  ———, The Prodigal Son, 1965.

  Nugent, Richard Bruce, Sahdji, an African Ballet, late 1920s.

  Nugent, Richard Bruce, and Rose McClendon, Taxi Fare, 1931.

  Thurman, Wallace, Savage Rhythm, 1931.

  ———, Singing the Blues, 1932.

  ———, screenplay, Tomorrow’s Children, 1934.

  ———, screenplay, High School Girl, 1935.

  Thurman, Wallace, and William Jourdan Rapp, Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem, 1929.

  ———, Jeremiah the Magnificent, 1930.

  FICTION

  Novels

  Cullen, Countee, One Way to Heaven (Harper, 1932).

  Hughes, Langston, Not Without Laughter (Knopf, 1930).

  Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Lippincott, 1937).

  Larsen, Nella, Quicksand (Knopf, 1928).

  ———, Passing (Knopf, 1929).

  McKay, Claude, Home to Harlem (Harper, 1928).

  ———, Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (Harper, 1929).

  ———, Banana Bottom (Harper, 1933).

  Thurman, Wallace, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life (Macaulay, 1929).

  ———, Infants of the Spring (Macaulay, 1932).

  Thurman, Wallace, and Abraham L. Furman, The Interne (Macaulay, 1932).

  Young Adult Novels and Children’s Books

  Cullen, Countee, The Lost Zoo (A Rhyme for the Young but Not Too Young) (Harper, 1940).

  Hughes, Langston, and Arna Bontemps, Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti (Macmillan, 1932).

  Hughes, Langston, The First Book of Negroes (Watts, 1952).

  ———, Famous American Negroes (Watts, 1954).

  ———, The First Book of Rhythms (Watts, 1954).

  ———, Famous Negro Music Makers (Dodd, 1955).

  ———, The First Book of Jazz (Watts, 1955).

  ———, The First Book of the West Indies (Watts, 1956).

  ———, Famous Negroes in American History (Dodd, 1958).

  ———, The First Book of Africa (Watts, 1960).

  NONFICTION

  Autobiography, Biography, Letters, and Memoir

  Alexander, Eleanor, Lyrics and Sunshine: The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore (NY UP, 2001).

  Bernard, Emily, ed., Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925–1964 (Knopf, 2001).

  Cooper, Wayne F., Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance (Louisiana State UP, 1987).

  Davis, Angela Y., Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Pantheon, 1998).

  Duberman, Martin, Paul Robeson: A Biography (Knopf, 1988).

  Ferguson, Blanche E., Countee Cullen and the New Negro Renaissance (Dodd, 1966). Hughes, Langston, The Big Sea: An Autobiography (Knopf, 1940).

  ———, I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey (Rinehart, 1956).

  Hull, Gloria T., ed., Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Norton, 1984).

  Hurston, Zora Neale, Dust Tracks on the Road (Lippincott, 1942).

  Kellner, Bruce, ed., Letters of Carl Van Vechten (Yale UP, 1987).

  Leeming, David Adams, Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney (Oxford UP, 1998).

  McKay, Claude, A Long Way from Home: An Autobiography (Harper, 1937).

  Nichols, Charles H., ed., Arna Bontemps–Langston Hughes Letters: 1925–1967 (Dodd, 1980).

  Rampersad, Arnold, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. 1, 1902–1941: I, Too, Sing America (Oxford UP, 1986).

 
———, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. 2, 1941–1967: I Dream a World (Oxford UP, 1988).

  Roses, Lorraine Elena, and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph, Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900–1945 (Harvard UP, 1990).

  Shucard, Alan R., Countee Cullen (Twayne, 1984).

  History and Reference

  Birnbaum, Jonathan, and Clarence Taylor, eds., Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle (New York UP, 2000).

  Black, Allida M., ed., Modern American Queer History (Temple UP, 2001).

  Blasius, Mark, and Shane Phelan, eds., We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics (Routledge, 1997).

  Chauncey, George, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Marketing of the Gay Male World 1890–1940 (Basic, 1994).

  Clendinen, Dudley, and Adam Nagourney, Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America (Simon, 1999).

  Dickinson, Donald C., A Bio-Bibliography of Langston Hughes, 1902–1967 (Shoestring, 1967).

  Duberman, Martin, Martha Vicinus, and George Chauncey, Jr., eds., Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (New American Library, 1989).

  Faderman, Lillian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth- Century America (Columbia UP, 1991).

  Fouts, John, and Maura Tantillo, eds., American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race Since the Civil War (U of Chicago P, 1993).

  Harley, Sharon, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, eds., The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images (National Univ., 1978).

  Harrison, Daphne Dural, Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (Rutgers UP, 1988).

  Hawkeswood, William G., One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem (U of California P, 1996).

  Hine, Darlene Clark, Rosalyn Terborg-Penne, and Elsa B. Brown, eds., Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson, 1993).

  Huggins, Nathan, Harlem Renaissance (Oxford UP, 1971).

  Hughes, Langston, The Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia (Cooperative Pub. Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR, 1934).