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1972 edition published by Columbia University Press
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1972 edition published by Columbia University Press |
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BLACK | SHORT STORY | ANTHOLOGY | Edited by | Woodie King | Columbia University Press | NEW YORK & LONDON 1972
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Copyright ©️ 1972 by Woodie King Associates, Inc. | All rights reserved
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First published by The New American Library, Inc, | New York, N.Y., 1972
title page verso
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[1 of 3] This book of short stories is dedicated to Hoyt W. Fuller. It was he who made me aware that the National Endowment of the Arts supports short-story anthologies that never include any Black authors. The white editors select most of the anthology stories from little magazines that never publish Black authors.
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[2 of 3] The editors of the anthologies, the Federal Government who supports them, and the racist literary magazines perpetuate racism in publishing by ignoring Black writers and Black literary magazines. As if Urbanite, Freedomways, Liberator, Black World, Black Dialog, Umbra, Journal of Black Poetry, Soulbook, Black Scholar, and c never existed.
page vii
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[3 of 3] And indeed as if Black short-story writers never existed. I felt it necessary to do what little I could to change this misconception. Woodie King Editor
page vii
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