Table of Contents: “…Perspectives -- The first forty years: 1900-1940 -- Migration: William Attaway and Blood on the forge -- Richard Wright: Native son and three kinds of revolution -- Race and sex: the novels of Chester Himes -- The Negro church: James Baldwin and the Christian vision -- History as blues: Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- The new nationalism: Malcolm X -- The expatriate as novelist: William Demby -- Prospects: LeRoi Jones?…”