Table of Contents:
  • The Negro writer and American literature / Saunders Redding
  • The negro renaissance: Jean Toomer and the Harlem writers of the 1920's / Arna Bontemps
  • Ideological forces in the world of negro writers / Horace R Cayton
  • Philistinism and the negro writer / LeRoi Jones
  • The writer in contemporary American society / Harvey Swados
  • The other side of the blues / Nat Hentoff
  • Ralph Ellison and the uses of imagination / Robert Bone
  • Something different, something more / Albert Murray
  • The afternoon of a young poet / M Carl Holman
  • The wonderful world of law and order / Ossie Davis
  • The poet's odyssey / Melvin T Tolson (an interview)
  • Reflections on Richard Wright: a symposium on an exiled native son.