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| Chapters in the present work first appeared in the following publications: |
 | | "The Organizer" in Story: The Yearbook of Discovery 1968, edited by Whit and Hallie Burnett (New York: Four Winds Press, 1968). Copyright 1968 by Scholastic Magazine, Inc. |
| | "Bright an' Mownin' Star (1)" in Massachusetts Review 7, no. 4 (1966). Copyright 1966 by The Massachusetts Review. |
| | "Bright an' Mownin' Star (2)" in Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, no. 6 (December 1974), ed. Chinua Achebe. Copyright 1974 Okike Magazine. |
| | "The August 28th March on Washington" in Prsence Africaine 21, no. 49 (1964). Copyright 1964 by Prsence Africaine, Paris. |
| | "Fish Are Jumping an' the Cotton Is High" in Massachusetts Review 7, no. 2 (1966). Copyright 1966 by The Massachusetts Review. |
| | "The Politics of Necessity and Survival in Mississippi" was published in two parts in Freedomways 6, nos. 2 and 3 (1966). Copyright 1966 by Freedomways Association, Inc. |
| | "Toward Black Liberation" in Massachusetts Review 7, no. 4 (1966). Copyright 1966 by SNCC. Reprinted by permission of The Massachusetts Review. |
| | "Negroes with Guns," as "Black Studies and White Universities," in Ramparts 7, no. 12 (May 1969). |
| | "Black Studies: A Political Perspective" in Massachusetts Review 10, no. 4 (1969). Copyright 1969 by The Massachusetts Review. |
| | "James Baldwin: Native Alien" in Motive Magazine 24, no. 8 (1964). Copyright 1964 by the Board of Education of the Methodist Church. |
| | "Baldwin's New York Novel" in The Black American Writer: Fiction (London: Everett/Edwards, 1969). Copyright 1969 by Everett/Edwards, Inc. |
| | "Mr. William Styron and the Reverend Turner" in Massachusetts Review 9, no. 1 (1968). Copyright 1968 by The Massachusetts Review. |
| | "The Turner Thesis" in Partisan Review 35, no. 3 (1968). Copyright 1968 by The Partisan Review. |
| | An earlier version of the first two letters of "Contra Naipaul" was first published in The New York Times Book Review, June 24, 1979, copyright 1979 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission. |
| | "The Gods Had Perished" was published as the introduction to Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard (New York: Grove Press, 1980); copyright 1980 by Grove Press. |
| | "Modernist Fallacies and the Responsibilities of the Black Writer" was first published by the Institute for Advanced Study of the Humanities, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Copyright 1983 by Michael Thelwell. |
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