race politics and the problem of poetic form

• Claude McKay, headnote (Norton, p. 516-17), "The Tropics of New York" (Norton, p. 517), "If We Must Die" (Norton, p. 517-18), "The Harlem Dancer" (Norton, p. 518)
• Claude McKay reads "If We Must Die"
• Melvin Tolson's review of McKay with reference to "If We Must Die"
• to help with "If We Must Die," read about the 1921 Oklahoma City race riots
• Countee Cullen, headnote (Norton, p. 660-61), "Yet Do I Marvel" (Norton, p. 661-62), "Incident" (Norton, p. 662)
• Langston Hughes on jazz, race and writing (1926)
• Langston Hughes, headnote (Norton, p. 645-47), "Morning After" (Norton, p. 649-50)
• audio: Langston Hughes reads "I've Known Rivers" (courtesy "The Listening Booth")
• audio: Sterling Brown, "Putting on the Dog"
• Gwendolyn Brooks, brief biographical profile
• Brooks, "The Boy Died in My Alley"
• Imamu Amiri Baraka, biographical profile
• Baraka, "Incident"
• June Jordan, "Poem about My Rights" (a video recording of a performance at the Writers House, April 23, 2001)