"The story of an alienated Northern professional's quest for redemptive immersion in Southern Black working-class communities"--Encyclopedia Britannica (online).

Woman of thirty, whose husband left with the family's money, ponders whether or not she should let her former husband's new wife adopt her son and give him a better chance in life.

This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past two generations. A major contribution to the history of Black thought in America, it ranges widely, beginning in the late eighteenth century with Jupiter Hammon, the first American Black writer, and ending in the 1930s with Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.