Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 20 essays, most written between 1969-1989, including an autobiographical essay, and several on black nationalism, of religion and the African American identity, and of literature - including W. E. B. Dubois's novel, pre-Harlem Renaissance literature, Langston Hughes, and Ellison's Invisible Man. Index. xii, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-813800196.