To Make a Poet Black Author:J. Saunders Redding, Henry Louis Gates This classic study of American Black poetry, first published in 1939 and long out of print, is the work of perhaps the pre-eminent figure in Black Studies of the past two generations. A major contribution to the history of Black thought in America, it ranges widely, beginning in the late eighteenth century with Jupiter Hammon, the first American... more » Black writer, and ending in the 1930s with Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.« less