THE NEGRO
IN AMERICAN FICTION

by
STERLING BROWN

KENNIKAT PRESS, INC./PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y.

• KENNIKAT PRESS SERIES IN NEGRO CULTURE AND HISTORY
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• THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN FICTION
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• Copyright 1937 by Associates in Negro Folk Education
• Reissued in 1968 by Kennikat Press
• Library of Congress Catalog Card No: 68-25492
• Manufactured in the United States of America

This Bronze Booklet aims at a survey of the Negroin American fiction, both as character and author. Itis the first full-length presentation of this subject, butdiffers from the usual academic survey by giving apenetrating analysis of the social factors and attitudesbehind the various schools and periods considered.Sterling A. Brown, now associate professor of Englishat Howard University, born and educated in Washington,D. C., was graduated from Williams College in1922 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and the Clark Fellowshipto Harvard, received his master’s degree atHarvard in 1923, and has since pursued graduate workin English literature at Harvard University. He hashad wide experience teaching at Virginia Seminary andCollege, Lynchburg, Va., 1923-26, at Lincoln University,Mo., 1926-28, Fisk University, 1928-29, andat Howard University from 1929 to date. His volumeof verse, Southern Road, published in 1932, put himin the advance-guard of younger Negro poets, and, aswell, the then new school of American regionalistliterature. In 1937, Professor Brown was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship for creative writing and amongother things, will complete for publication his secondvolume of verse, “No Hiding Place.” Since 1936, hehas been directing editor on Negro materials of theFederal Writers’ Project at Washington headquarters.For the last five years, his literary book review commentsin Opportunity under the caption: “The LiteraryScene,” have revealed a critical talent of sane but progressiveand unacademic tendencies,—a point of viewthat the reader will find characteristically carriedthrough in this provocative and masterly study.

Alain Locke