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Even well-meaning fiction writers of the late Jim Crow era (1900-1955) perpetuated racial stereotypes in their depiction of black characters. From 1918 to 1952, Octavus Roy Cohen turned out a remarkable 360 short stories featuring Florian Slappey and the schemers, romancers and ditzes of Birmingham's Darktown for The Saturday Evening Post and other publications. Cohen said, "I received a great deal of mail from Negroes and I have never found any resentment from a one of them." The black readership had to be satisfied with any black presence in the popular literature of the day.
The best known white writers of black characters included Booth Tarkington (Herman and Verman in the Penrod books), Irvin S. Cobb (Judge Priest's houseman Jeff Poindexter), Roark Bradford (Widow Duck, the plantation matriarch), Hugh Wiley (Wildcat Marsden, the war veteran who traveled the country in the company of his goat) and Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden (radio's Amos 'n' Andy). These writers deservedly declined in the civil rights era, but left a curious legacy that deserves examination. This book, focusing on authors of series fiction and particularly of humorous stories, profiles 29 writers and their black characters in detail, with brief entries covering 72 others.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: If That Is the Way They Are in Stories,
That Must Be the Way They Are in Life
I. Writers of the Antebellum, Reconstruction
and Early Jim Crow Era (1851-1899)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)
George Washington Cable (1844-1925)
Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922)
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
II. Writers of the Late Jim Crow Era (1900-1955)
Richard F. Outcault (1863-1928)
Henry Edwards Cowen ("Red Buck") Bryant (1873-1967)
Bridges Smith (1848-1930)
Harris Dickson (1868-1946)
Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944)
E.K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means (1878-1957)
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946)
James P. Alley (1885-1934) and Calvin Alley (1915-1970)
Ambrose E. Gonzales (1857-1926)
Robert McBlair (1888-1976)
Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959)
Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855-1938)
Arthur LeRoy Kaser (1890-1956)
Hugh Wiley (1884-1968)
Arthur K. Akers (1886-1980)
Roark Bradford (1896-1948)
Charles Correll (1890-1972) and Freeman F. Gosden (1899-1982)
Paul F. Ernst (1899-1985)
Will Eisner (1917-2005)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
III. Additional Writers of Interest
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Robert Roberts (1780-1860)
Thomas D. Rice (1808-1860)
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870)
George Washington Dixon (1801-1861)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1790-1870)
Caroline Gilman (1794-1888)
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
William Wells Brown (1814-1884)
E.D.E.N. Southworth (1819-1899)
Mary Henderson Eastman (1818-1887)
Maria J. McIntosh (1803-1878)
Caroline Lee Hentz (1800-1856)
Mary J. Holmes (1825-1907)
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865)
Johnson Jones Hooper (1815-1862)
Martin Delany (1812-1885)
Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900)
Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897)
Petroleum V. Nasby (1833-1888)
Samuel W. Small (1851-1931)
Irwin Russell (1853-1879)
Thomas Worth (1834-1917)
Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (1843-1904)
Louise Clarke Pyrnelle (1850-1907)
Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883)
Ruth McEnery Stuart (1849-1917)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
Polk Miller (1844-1913)
John Trotwood Moore (1858-1929)
Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
Opie Pope Read (1852-1939)
Bob Cole (1868-1911)
Miss Howard Weeden (1846-1905)
Martha Sawyer Gielow (1860-1933)
Helen Bannerman (1862-1946)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
Will N. Harben (1858-1919)
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Martha Strudwick Young (1862-1941)
John Charles McNeill (1874-1907)
Frederick H. Seymour (1850-1913)
James D. Corrothers (1869-1917)
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Ella Middleton Tybout (1871-1952)
Silas Xavier Floyd (1869-1923)
William Marriner (1873-1914)
John F. Dixon Jr. (1864-1946)
Sara Cone Bryant (1873-?)
Frances Boyd Calhoun (1867-1909) and Emma Speed Sampson (1868-1947)
Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. (1861-1949)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Marion F. Harmon (1861-1940)
B.B. Valentine (1862-1919)
Julia Mead Peterkin (1880-1961)
Robert Emmet Kennedy (1877-1941)
Jane Baldwin Cotton (d. 1932)
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
Charles E. Mack (1887-1934)
Annie Vaughan Weaver (1905-1982)
Inez Hogan (1895-1973)
E.V. White (1879-1955)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Richard Wright (1908-1960)
Ellen Tarry (1906-2008)
Enid Blyton (1897-1968)
Jackie Ormes (1911-1985)
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
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