Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955

Bernard A. Drew, an associate editor of The Lakeville Journal and its associated weekly newspapers in Northwest Connecticut, has written 50 books. He lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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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