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Blurb: “BLACK DEFIANCE In this splendid collection, twenty-three black women and men provide a personalized history of black defiance in America from the eighteenth century to the present. Their struggles to combat white racism are evoked in autobiography, biography, dramatic narrative, and poetry. Contributors include Marcia
M. Mathews, Earl Conrad, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Helen Buckler, Benjamin J. Davis, Ted Poston, James Baldwin,
• Julian Mayfield, Hannah Lees, Kathleen Cleaver, Eldridge Cleaver, and Claude McKay.
In his introduction, Jay David explains the purpose of the book:
"BLACK DEFIANCE presents a history of the black heroes of America and their courage in challenging white society. The twenty-three selections in this book reveal whites' attitude toward blacks along with the blacks' struggle to combat white racism. Though the forms of resistance have varied through time, all reveal the hardships blacks have been made to endure in this country, and the heroism with which Afro-Americans have confronted white America."
JAY DAVID has edited or co-edited a number of outstanding collections on black themes. They include Growing Up Black, The Black Soldier, and Living Black in White America (with Elaine Crane); To Be A Black Woman (with Mel Watkins), and Growing Up African (with Helise Harrington).”